Términos

Usado generalmente para finanzas de ciudades, pueblos, municipios o aldeas.

Porción de tierra cuya propiedad es conservada en posesión por el propietario para su uso personal o para el uso de sus sirvientes; tierra señorial no donada o mantenida por arrendatarios.

General term referring to members of hundreds of species of small, conical-billed, seed-eating songbirds belonging to several families in the order Passeriformes, including true finches of the Fringillidae family, as well as waxbills, buntings, American sparrows, and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, from the Emberizidae, Estrildidae, Carduelidae, and Ploceidae families. Although not closely related, finches are very similar-looking and typically have patches of bright color.

Beautifully printed books issued by a private press, usually in a limited edition.

El estado o cualidad de ser muy delgado o esbelto, dicho por ejemplo de fibras o alambres.

La proporción de un metal precioso puro en una aleación.

Small sharpening steels held between the fingers by a currier to sharpen the blades used in scraping hides.

Process of weaving using one's hands without the use of a loom, joining lengthwise and sideways threads together. One end of the strands are pinned to a stable surface by a bar or nail. Primarily practiced by Native North Americans.

Long, rectangular bands of woven fabric terminating in woven streamers or tassles, usually wrapped around the waist. Woven by using one's hands without the use of a loom, joining lengthwise and sideways threads together. Often used in Native North American and Métis regalia.

Hardware, typically used in the interior of a building, that is usually functional and treated as part of the decorative scheme, such as doorknobs and window latches.

Private schools, usually for girls, that emphasized training in domestic skills, cultural behavior, and social activities, allowing young ladies of certain social classes to be "finished" prior to their introduction into the traditional adult female role in polite society. In addition to limited training in general education, finishing schools typically taught subjects such as manners, posture, needlework, drawing, meal planning, wardrobe planning, the art of conversation, supervision of child care, singing, dance, etc.

Se refiere a la cultura de la nación moderna de Finlandia o en general a las culturas que han ocupado el área de Europa del norte, el sur de Noruega y este del Golfo Bothnia. También puede usarse para referirse específicamente a la cultura de los habitantes históricos de Filandia que generalmente se sobreentiende por haber sido los Suomi o Suomelaisset y quienes hablaron un idioma de la clase Ural-Altaic. También puede referirse más ampliamente a las culturas étnicamente y lingüísticamente de otros pueblos estrechamente asociados a los Suomi.

Proceso fotográfico patentado por Clare L. Finlay. Proceso aditivo de color para producir transparencias sobre una emulsión pancromática en blanco y negro, utilizando una pantalla a color de círculos rojos y verdes sobre un fondo azul violeta.

Pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religious beliefs and practices of the Finno-Ugric peoples, who inhabit regions of northern Scandinavia, Siberia, the Baltic area, and central Europe. In modern times the religion of many of these peoples has been an admixture of agrarian and nomadic primitive beliefs and of Christianity and Islam.

Designa una entrada de mar larga, profunda y estrecha y que posee paredes escarpadas; generalmente, formado por la erosión de un glacial.