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Callot
French etcher, engraver, and draftsman. He learned the technique of engraving in Rome. In 1612, at the court of the Medici family in Florence, he was employed to make pictorial records of pageants and feasts. He had a genius for caricature and the grotesque; his series of etchings The Miseries of War (1633), documenting the atrocities of the Thirty Years' War, was used as a source by F. de Goya. His output was prodigious; more than 1,400 etchings and 2,000 drawings survive. One of the greatest of all etchers, he was also one of the first major artists to practice the graphic arts exclusively.
taboo
Prohibition against touching, saying, or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a supernatural force. The term is of Polynesian origin and was first noted by Capt. J. Cook during his 1771 visit to Tonga, but taboos have been present in virtually all cultures. They may include prohibitions on fishing or hunting at certain seasons, eating certain foods, interacting with members of other social classes, coming into contact with corpses, and (for women) performing certain activities during menstruation. Though some taboos can be traced to evident risks to health and safety, there is no generally accepted explanation of most others, though there is broad agreement that they tend to relate to objects and actions that are significant for the maintenance of social order.
tarot
Sets of cards used in fortune-telling and in certain card games. Their origins are obscure; cards approximating their present form first appeared in Italy and France in the late 14th cent. Modern tarot decks consist of 78 cards, of which 22 have pictures representing forces, characters, virtues, and vices. The remaining cards are divided into four suits--(1) wands, batons, or rods, (2) cups, (3) swords, and (4) coins, pentacles, or disks--of 14 cards each. Each suit has 10 numbered cards and four court cards (king, queen, knight, and page). Modern playing cards evolved from the latter. Initially used as playing cards, tarot cards were imbued with esoteric associations in the 18th cent. and are now used widely for fortune-telling. Each card's basic meaning is altered by the card's position in the spread of cards laid out by the fortune-teller, by the card's orientation, and by the cards that are near it.
turbot
Species (Scophthalmus maximus, family Scophthalmidae, or Bothidae) of broad-bodied European flatfish, a highly valued food fish. It lives along sand and gravel shores. It is left-sided (with eyes normally on the left side of the head) and scaleless; the head and body are studded with numerous bony knobs. Turbots grow to, at most, 40 in. (1 m) long and weigh about 55 lbs (25 kg). Color varies with the surroundings but is usually gray-brown or light brown with darker markings. A related species is the Black Sea turbot (S. maeoticus). Certain right-sided Pacific flatfish (genus Pleuronichthys, ...
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