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Banket (bahn-KET) is a type of sweet pastry filled with almond paste, which originated in the Netherlands.It is made in several forms, each of which goes by various names. One variety consists of long bars or loaves which are sliced into individual servings – also referred to in English as almond rolls or almond patties, and in Dutch as banketstave
Dutch letters in Iowa. The Dutch letter (also referred to as banket letter, [1] almond letter, butter letter, [2] and in Dutch as banketstaaf, banketletter, boterletter, and letterbanket) is a type of pastry that is typically prepared using a mixture of flour, eggs and butter or puff pastry as its base and filled with almond paste (or persipan), dusted with sugar and shaped in an "S" or other ...
Argent a bar gules. In English heraldry, the bar is an heraldic ordinary consisting of a horizontal band extending across the shield. [1] In form, it closely resembles the fess but differs in breadth: the bar occupies one-fifth of the breadth of the field of the escutcheon (or flag); [2] the fess occupies one-third. [3]
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Particularly when writing capitals, Y used to be common instead of IJ in the past. That practice has long been deprecated, since 1804, and the standard Dutch alphabet has the letter ij in the alphabet between the "x" and the "z". The letter "y" is not part of the Dutch alphabet, but commonly used in loan words and archaic names. [4]
1 Historical information about the Dutch letter in the U.S. 3 comments. 2 Banket. 30 comments. 3 There is a case at the DRN regarding this page. 1 comment. 4 ...
The normal way in most of Europe to write the number seven is with a bar. [1]) In medieval English scribal abbreviations, a stroke or bar was used to indicate abbreviation. [2] For example, £ , the pound sign, is a stylised form of the letter Ꝉ (the letter L with a cross bar). [3] [a]
The two leading Dutch men of letters in the mid-19th century besides Beets and Douwes Dekker were critics, Conrad Busken-Huet (1826–1886) and Carel Vosmaer (1826–1888). In Busken-Huet the principles of the 1830–1880 period were summed up; he had been during all those years the fearless and trusty watch-dog of Dutch letters as he ...