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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… by his contemporaries, played a decisive part in the transformation of Bath, Britain’s ancient watering-place, into a fashionable resort. The inventor of a new type of spa sociability, he contributed to the emergence of a British model of … a refined and polite nation. This entry attempts to assess his action without downplaying his moral ambiguity. People > Fashion Keywords Fashion Gaming Manners Politeness Refinement Spa Wit Richard Nash, who was born in Swansea in 1674, has gone down in …
Fashion | Gaming | Manners | Politeness | Refinement | Spa | Wit
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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… century usually feature players gathered around plain everyday tables in dark taverns, gaming tables evolved into fashionable objects especially designed for domestic spaces at the end of the seventeenth century, testifying to the … all over the world and contrasting with the previous years’ extensive use of walnut wood. Mahogany in particular became fashionable in England at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The tables could be of rectangular or triangular shape … century usually feature players gathered around plain everyday tables in dark taverns, gaming tables evolved into fashionable objects especially designed for domestic spaces at the end of the seventeenth century, testifying to the …
Aristocracy | Domesticity | Furniture | Gambling | Gaming | Playing
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Public Advertiser (1781) [ Practices ]
… ? People used formerly to meet together for the Sake of Conversation ; but ever since the Card Table has been in Fashion, all the Pleasures of Speech have been suppressed, and a Visit is nothing more than an Endeavour to win the Money …
Gaming | Conversation | Beauty
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