Afro, deck, DECORATE, discomfiture, are recognizable, but much embroidered

• The first writer who produced a novel around the figure of Artemisia may have been George Eliot in Romola (1862–63), where some aspects of Artemisia's story, while set in the Florence in her time, are recognizable, but much embroidered.

Mrs. G.B. McClellan decorating firemen in New York. Date missing, but early 1900s would be a fair guess.
Photo: Bain News Service/Library of Congress.





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‘I had an afro. It was 34 years ago. The hairstyle has gone and some of the views have gone. We have all moved on.’




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In arithmetic and every form of calculation he was particularly apt, and one of his earliest recollections, and one which he always mentioned with much pleasure, was that in his tenth year he was called out of bed by his teacher, who had wagered with an acquaintance that in less than five minutes he (the boy) could calculate the number of feet in a given load of wood. After obtaining the dimensions, half asleep as he was, Phineas, much to the delight of his teacher and the discomfiture of the doubting acquaintance, correctly figured out the result in less than two minutes.

Afronoun [ C ]

 UK ​ /ˈæf.rəʊ/ US ​ /ˈæf.roʊ/ plural Afros

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a way of arranging the hair so that it is very thick, curly, and has arounded shape, especially like that of some black people

dis·com·fi·ture (dĭs-kŭm'fĭ-chʊr', -chər) 

n.

1. Frustration or disappointment.
2. Lack of ease; perplexity and embarrassment.
3. Archaic. Defeat.

deck (DECORATE)
verb [T]
to decorate or add something to something to make an effect:
The room was decked with flowers.
The wedding guests were decked out in their finery (= wearing their best clothes).
See also bedeck.