| LC control no. | sh2016000176 |
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| Topical heading | Crescents (Shapes) |
| Variant(s) | Crescent moons (Shapes) Crescent motif |
| See also | Shapes |
| Found in | Ferg, Alan. Cross-and-crescent motifs among the Western Apache, c1998 (Examines several different facets of the history and use of the cross-and-crescent motifs among the Western Apache, including a description of Western Apache artifacts exhibiting the motif) Work cat: Smith, Mavis. Crescents, 1991 (Simple text and cut-out illustrations present a variety of things that have a crescent shape) Alberini, Elena Schenone. Libyan jewellery: a journey through symbols. The crescent moon, 1998. Tanner, Clara Lee. The naja, c1981 (Traces the development of the naja which has the shape of a crescent and used in Indian Southwestern jewelry and ornamentation) Sakisian, Arménag. Le croissant comme emblème national et religieux en Turquie, 1941 (discusses the crescent (croissant) in Turkish emblems) AAT Online, Jan. 23, 2016 (preferred: crescents (motifs); non-preferred: crescent (motif); crescent moons (motif); moons, crescent (motif); note: motifs consisting of a curved segment of a circle, often suggesting a crescent moon) Webster's new collegiate dictionary, c1973: p. 268 (crescent; noun; b. the figure of the moon at such a stage defined by a convex and a concave edge; 2. something shaped like a crescent) Wikipedia, Jan. 23, 2016 (Crescent; In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points (usually in such a manner that the enclosed shape does not include the center of the original circle)) |
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