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Strewing herbs are
certain kinds of
plants that are
scattered (strewn) over the
floors of
dwelling places and
other buildings. Such
plants usually have...
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Thomas Tusser, a
regular at the
court of
Henry VIII,
lists twenty-one
strewing herbs in his 1557
instructional poem, Five
Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie:...
- 'the herb of happiness'. The
Saturejas have been
traditionally used to
strew on the
floor since the
medieval times, as an
aromatic herb that
reduce insects...
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personal life; he
later said that he
wanted to
focus on
music and "not
really strew my
baggage across the
public lobby". Eventually, however, he
decided the...
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centuries later, Ælfric of Eynsham, an Anglo-Saxon abbot,
wrote of the rite of
strewing ashes on
heads at the
start of Lent. The
article on Ash
Wednesday in the...
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Saladin had his
guards supplied with link
lights and had
chalk and
cinders strewed around his tent
outside Masyaf—which he was besieging—to
detect any footsteps...
- and
Specimen Location Technique for Same-Specimen
Study of
Palynological Strew Mounts". Micropaleontology. 37 (4): 407–13. Bibcode:1991MiPal..37..407Z...
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Veterans Affairs,
credits Mary Ann
Williams with
originating the "idea of
strewing the
graves of
Civil War soldiers—Union and Confederate" with flowers. Official...
- for the open
fields to the
north and east, "which for many
miles were
strewed with
moveables of all sorts, and
tents erecting to
shelter both people...
- In
ritual and
other formalities, veve is
usually drawn on the
floor by
strewing a powder-like substance,
commonly cornmeal,
wheat flour, bark, red brick...
