Meanings
- pluralplural onlyThe decade from 1600 to 1609.
- pluralplural onlyThe century between 1600 and 1699.
After the 1600s, the discourse on affects becomes confused with musical rhetoric: think of the first list of musicorhetorical figures published by Burmeister (1599), […]
2013, Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, Klaus R. Scherer, The Emotional Power of Music3 more examples
However, one could make a strong correlation to her success ruling Europe in the 1600s to her having a snatched waist while strutting around the castle in heels. Come on, you know the world bends to a woman with 36-24-36 body measurements.
2020 January 7, Chloé Hilliard, F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 131Beer as a cocktail ingredient isn’t a revolutionary idea. It’s long played a part in drinkmaking. The original flips, concocted in the late 1600s, were made with beer, rum, sugar and whole egg, and served hot.
2020 August 14, Rebekah Peppler, “Beer Truly Is the Champagne of Cocktails”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020Among Professor Spence’s most ambitious books was “The Search for Modern China,” which made The New York Times’s best-seller list and is now a standard text. It took an 876-page view of China’s history from the decline of the Ming dynasty in the 1600s to the democracy movement of 1989.
2021 December 27, Neil Genzlinger, “Jonathan Spence, Noted China Scholar, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2021, Books
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