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William and Mary

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William and Mary

(often attributive) A style of furniture design common from 1700 to 1725 in the Netherlands, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland and Kingdom of Ireland, and later in England's American colonies. It exhibits elaborate carving and woodturning, and imitates Asian design elements such as japanning.
a William and Mary chair

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Examples

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I've worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids. Michele Bachmann

Claudia Stevens, Blue Lias, or the Fish Lizard's Whore, video documentation, script, performance history, Claudia Stevens papers, Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary http://scdb. Source: Internet

Adrienna Bingham (Summer intern): Adrienna is a graduate student at the college of William and Mary, in Leah Shaw's lab. Source: Internet

Anne and her descendants were to be in the line of succession after William and Mary, and they were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage. Source: Internet

Cabell matriculated at the College of William and Mary in 1894 at the age of fifteen and graduated in June 1898. Source: Internet

He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Mary Ellen (Petty) Franklin of McGrew, NE, and his brother, James (Venetta) Franklin, of Gering, NE. Source: Internet

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