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"text": "From the inn she is taken to the house of the procuress, divested of her home-spun garb, and dressed in the gayest style of the day; her pincushion and scissars discarded for an etwee and watch, and the tender native hue of her complexion incrusted with paint, and disguised by patches.",
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"ref": "1793 September, “Essay on a Pincushion. Addressed to Miss Hales.”, in The Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, volume XXIV, London: Printed for G. G. J. & J. Robinson, […], →OCLC, pages 489–490, column 1",
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"ref": "1820, Theresa Tidy [pseudonym; Elizabeth Susannah Davenport Graham], chapter VIII, in Eighteen Maxims of Neatness and Order. […], 10th edition, London: Printed for J[ohn] Hatchard and Son, […], →OCLC, page 22",
"text": "It is also expedient to carry about you a purse, a thimble, a pincushion, a pencil, a knife, and a pair of scissars, which will not only be an inexpressible source of comfort and independence, by removing the necessity of borrowing, but will secure the privilege of not lending these indispensable items.",
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"ref": "[1824?], T. King, “Lovers Quarrels; or, Like Master Like Man: An Interlude, in One Act. Altered from ‘The Mistake’ of Sir John Vanbrugh, by T. King.”, in The Select London Stage; a Collection of the Most Reputed Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, Melo-dramas, Farces, and Interludes. […], London: G. Balne, […], →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 5, column 2",
"text": "Here, take thy satin pincushion, with thy curious half-hundred of pins in it, that you made such a vapouring about yesterday; tell them carefully, there's not one wanting.",
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"ref": "1967, Mildred Allen Butler, Twice Queen of France: Anne of Brittany, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, →OCLC; republished [s.l.]: Ad Stellae Books, 2013, page 127",
"text": "[...] and, finally, came a platoon of footmen, bearing a large green coffer full of mirrors, sponges, clothes brushes with red velvet handles, pin cushions of crimson satin, combs, nightcaps—everything that could be thought of for her comfort.",
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"ref": "1992 September, Herbert Keppler, “How to Test Your Lens”, in Popular Photography, volume 99, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51, column 2",
"text": "Yes, at two or more f-stops smaller than maximum aperture there should be a gain in sharpness, particularly in the corners. Is it sharp enough to satisfy you? Examine the horizontal building lines. Do they bulge outwards, indicating barrel distortion, or inward (pincushion distortion)?",
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"ref": "1997, Robert J. Parelli, “Image Intensifier System”, in Principles of Fluoroscopic Image Intensification and Television Systems: Workbook and Laboratory Manual, Delray Beach, Fla.: GR/St. Lucie Press, page 13",
"text": "Pincushion distortion is a form of spatial distortion that warps the appearance of the image. It is a consequence of projecting the image formed on a curved input phosphor to a flat output phosphor. Pincushion distortion results in slightly higher magnification of the input image toward the edge of the image.",
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"ref": "2012, S. V. Bodle, “Hiding Place”, in Planet Treasure Guardians: Hunt for the Emberteller, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 75",
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"text": "[page 290] Then Esther would be constantly making us little presents; little pin-cushions, and purses, and such like, which it was impossible to refuse. [...] [W]e had some very fine old lace, which had belonged to our mother, and we agreed that we would give this to Esther. [...] [pages 291–292] When the transaction came to Aunt Dorothy's knowledge, she was very indignant indeed; and said that we were \"two fools to be pin-cushioned out of our mother's old point, which had been in our family ever so long.\nA nonce usage apparently meaning “to have pincushions foisted on oneself”.]",
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"ref": "[1876 November, “F.” [pseudonym], “The Flower Garden as It is This Year as a Guide to What It is to be Next”, in D. T. Fish, editor, The Villa Gardener, London: […] Virtue & Co., →OCLC, page 348, column 1",
"text": "Again, the double Lobelia is not to be trusted in a row where uniformity of colour is an object. […] Its place is pin[-]cushioned among such delicate flowers as Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums and Duke of Edinburgh, the grand tufts of flowers having a chaste and charming effect among the beautiful foliage and beautiful flowers of such delicate colours, and the failures being little observed.\nThe word is used to mean that the lobelia is planted amongst other flowering plants, like pins on a pincushion.]",
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"ref": "2001 January, Peter Brandvold, chapter 4, in The Romantics, New York, N.Y.: Forge Books; 1st mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Forge Books, Tom Doherty Associates, March 2002, page 40",
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"ref": "2005 September, Tom Robbins, “The Day the Earth Spit Warthogs”, in Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, page 39; 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Dell, September 2006",
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"ref": "2009, Frederick Menick, “The Nasal Defect – Understanding the Challenge”; “Restoring Contour – Recreating a Subsurface Architecture”, in Nasal Reconstruction: Art and Practice, [Edinburgh]: Mosby Elsevier, pages 42 and 282",
"text": "[page 42] Flaps, however, ‘pin cushion’ and develop a convex form as they contract. For this reason, flaps are best used to resurface convex surfaces. A skin graft is best for planar or concave recipient sites. [...] [page 282] As the flap contracts, it pin cushions. This trapdoor effect can contribute to a convex shape.",
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