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Steen   /stin/   Listen
noun
Steen  n.  (Written also stean)  
1.
A vessel of clay or stone. "An huge great earth-pot steane."
2.
A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.


verb
Steen  v. t.  (Written also stean, and stein)  To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.





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"Steen" Quotes from Famous Books



... known Jan van Steen, and thanked him for his glorious, rollicking, extraordinary pictures (especially for "The Poultry Yard"), and have slyly stolen his bottle away from him sometimes, so that he might have painted even more, and ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson
... is three times humpty-steen? Elaine, have you forgotten? Why does a chicken cross the road? Who carries home a toper's load? You are so very stupid, dear! ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... pictures of coarse, vulgar people engaged in rude amusements cannot be beautiful; but they are oftentimes wonderful. Among the most noted names in this kind of painting are those of Adrian Brauwer, the Van Ostades, the Teniers, and Jan Steen. Most of these artists executed small pictures only. I shall speak particularly of but one of these Dutch genre painters—DAVID TENIERS the younger (1610-1694), who became the greatest painter of his time ...
— A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture - Painting • Clara Erskine Clement
... speak. Why, we have a ready-made honeymoon staring us in the face. We'll just skate round Switzerland after your baggage and then drop down the map into Italy. I figured it all out last night, together with 'steen methods of making the preliminary declaration. I'll tell you the whole scheme while we—Oh, well, if you're in a real hurry to cross the glacier, I must defer ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy
... designed to embrace the whole actions of the hero, from his first signalizing himself under Steen Sture, to his death in 1560; but as all this could not be regularly related without destroying the unity of the poem, it was thought most convenient to begin with his introduction among the Dalecarlians at Mora, and conclude with his first election to the royalty, in 1523; ...
— Gustavus Vasa - and other poems • W. S. Walker


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