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Callot

American  
[ka-loh] / kaˈloʊ /

noun

  1. Jacques 1592?–1635, French engraver and etcher.


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A Callot gown—recalling a sari, a qipao, or a djellabah—can read like a map of French colonial projects supplemented with an inset of Japan.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 16, 2015

A “Callot dress” is one that was made by the Paris haute-couture house Callot Soeurs—Callot Sisters.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 16, 2015

“Without the example of the Callot Soeurs,” Vionnet said, “I would have continued to make Fords. It is because of them that I have been able to make Rolls-Royces.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 16, 2015

Peering through a magnifying glass that Galileo had given him, Callot was able to fill them with an incredible amount of detail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Olerys is also said to have introduced the grotesque style of Moustiers, founded on the caricatures of Callot.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

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