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tonneler

clothing
Also known as: tonnelet
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  • interior of a Kabuki theater
    stagecraft
    / Renaissance costume

    …skirt and named it the tonneler. Each item of costume was decorated with a profusion of curved ornaments, flowers, vines, and animal and human forms.

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    …skirt and named it the tonneler. Each item of costume was decorated with a profusion of curved ornaments, flowers, vines, and animal and human forms.

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  • interior of a Kabuki theater
    stagecraft
    / Costume of the 18th and 19th centuries

    …liberated from the pannier and tonneler. In Pygmalion, a ballet of her own composition, Marie Sallé danced in London in 1734 dressed only in a muslin robe like that of a Greek statue; she wore no panniers, petticoat, or bodice, and her hair was loose and without ornament. The French…

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    …liberated from the pannier and tonneler. In Pygmalion, a ballet of her own composition, Marie Sallé danced in London in 1734 dressed only in a muslin robe like that of a Greek statue; she wore no panniers, petticoat, or bodice, and her hair was loose and without ornament. The French…

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