Callot
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
In the second volume of “Remembrance of Things Past,” the Narrator asks his beloved, Albertine, “Is there a vast difference between a Callot dress and one from any ordinary shop?”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015
From the tunics of Callot Soeurs to the cylindrical day dresses of Vionnet to the drop-waist skirts of Chanel in the 1920s, fashion's deflation followed the Cubist embrace of the plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pencil of Callot, of Rembrandt, or of Goya is requisite to limn the strange, hideous, and fantastical appearance of this multitude.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
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