The flaps of her cap fell like the fillets of a sphinx. turpentine

 

 The flaps of her cap fell like the fillets of a sphinx. turpentine
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Project Gutenberg's Sentimental Education Vol 1, by Gustave Flaubert

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34828/34828-h/34828-h.htm

turpentine

Turpentine is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin harvested from living trees, mainly pines. Principally used as a specialized solvent, it is also a source of material for organic syntheses. Wikipedia

 The flaps of her cap fell like the of a sphinx

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 fillets

A fillet was originally worn in classical antiquity, especially in cultures of the Mediterranean, Levant and Persia, including Hellenic culture. At that time, a fillet was a very narrow band of cloth, leather or some form of garland, frequently worn by athletes. It was also worn as a sign of royalty and became symbolized in later ages as a metallic ring which was a stylized band of cloth. Greeks called it Diadema (διάδημα) and although most Roman Emperors didn't wear it, after Caesar refused it when offered him by Antonius, except in a few cases, Constantine the Great adopted the Greek emblem of royalty. Before the diadem was worn by the Roman emperors as a symbol of sovereignty, it was used as a head-dress by Roman women.^[1]

Later, in medieval times, a fillet was a type of headband worn by unmarried women, in certain monk hoods, usually with a wimple or barbette.^[2] This is indicated in the sign language of said monks (who took oaths of silence), wherein a sweeping motion across the brow, in the shape of a fillet, indicated an unmarried woman.^[2]

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  Crown of Nubkheperre Intef, pharaoh of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt
 
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  Relief of Amenhotep III, pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, wearing a filet crown
 
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  Procession of Officials from Medinet Habu of Ramesses III, pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt
 
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  Charioteer of Delphi, wearing a fillet headband, bronze statue (478–474 BCE).

sphinx

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  Maned sphinx of Amenemhat III. 12th Dynasty, c. 1800 BC. State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich.
 
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  Egyptian sphinx from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. 1st century AD. State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich.
 
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  Column base in the shape of a double sphinx. From Sam'al. 8th century BC. Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul.
 
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  Hittite sphinx. Basalt. 8th century BC. From Sam'al. Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul.
 
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  Winged sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great during Persian Empire at Susa (480 BC)
 
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  Achaemenid sphinx from Halicarnassus, capital of Caria, 355 BC. Found in Bodrum Castle, but possibly from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
 
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  Head from a female sphinx, c. 1876–1842 BC, Brooklyn Museum
 
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  The Great Sphinx of Giza in 1858
 
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  Typical Egyptian sphinx with a human head (Museo Egizio, Turin)
 
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  Sphinx of Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut with unusual ear and ruff features, 1503–1482
 
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  Ancient Greek sphinx from Delphi
 
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  3000-year-old sphinxes were imported from Egypt to embellish public spaces in Saint Petersburg and other European capitals.
 
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  Park Sanssouci in Potsdam
 
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  Queluz wingless rococo sphinx
 
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  Classic Régence garden Sphinx in lead, Château Empain, the Parc d'Enghien [nl], Belgium
 
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  Park Schönbusch in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, 1789–90
 
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  Ingres, Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808, 1827
 
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  Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau, 1864
 
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  Sphinx at Plaza de los Emperadores (Parque de El Capricho, Madrid)
 
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  Marble sphinx on a cavetto capital, Attic, c. 580–575 BC
 
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  The Sphinx of Adi Gramaten, Eritrea
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