doublet pattern

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noun Fine Arts.

a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.

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And in so many of these events, the pattern of “blame the victim” was quickly in evidence.
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I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.
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Although the Brits would capture New York City a few weeks later, a pattern had been set.
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The endpaper features a “pattern of marbleized paper” that has been “individually designed.”
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The loss of his life, and all the others from this summer, back to Trayvon and well before that, are part of a pattern.
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The sleeves of his doublet which protruded from his leather casing were of the same colour and material as his trunks.
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The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
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Her eye fastened on a circular portion of the wall-paper pattern, and she felt that the whole room was revolving about her.
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Antonius and Hieronymus conjointly built a number of large pattern violins, which are of high finish and beautiful wood.
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