culottes

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These calottes are, moreover, marvellously painted and decorated in the interior.

From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther

The houses, built of brick, were of two different types; some were covered with hemispherical or parabolical calottes, others had flat roofs with a tower in the fashion of a belvedere.

From The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 by Various

Burton presently caught sight of Gelele's body-guard of 1,000 women—the famous Amazons, who were armed with muskets, and habited in tunics and white calottes.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

The filaments issued from polar calottes of 20° radius.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)