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on near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are c…

See Barricade. Shak.

A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. [Obs.]

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak.

A mark of cadency or difference.

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

An ambuscade. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

h a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. [Written also cader.]

semblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.

The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.

rse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade. Prescott.

An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.

The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.

moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.

Any plant of the natural order Cycadeceæ, as the sago palm, etc.

A kind of modified damask or blocade.

rough thick and thin. Dryden. On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade all dashing fall. Thomson.

A decade. Averill was a decad and a half his elder. Tennyson.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist. [R.]

uage altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes. Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.