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POPPY HEADS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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POPPY

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TERM

term, in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, given to the finials or other ornaments which terminate the tops of See also:

BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

bench ends, either to pews or stalls . They are sometimes small human heads, sometimes richly carved images, knots of foliages or finials, and sometimes fleurs-de-lis simply cut out of the thickness of the bench end and chamfered . The term is probably derived from the See also:

French poupee, See also:

DOLL

doll, puppet, used also in this sense, or from the See also:

flower, from a resemblance in shape .

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