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1943 painting by Laura Knight
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring is a 1943 oil on canvas painting by the British artist Dame Laura Knight. It depicts a young woman, Ruby Loftus, working
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heroic and glamorous. Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring (1943) – in the autumn of 1942 the WAAC commissioned Knight to paint a portrait to bolster female
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Cultural icon of the US during World War II
Gun Girl – the earlier Canadian equivalent Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring, a 1943 painting showing a female British war worker Women's Land Army –
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British munitions factory
Laura Knight's wartime painting Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring was created at the site, with factory worker Ruby Loftus being the subject. The Newport
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and August 1942. A Balloon Site was displayed at the 1943 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, along with Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring (1943). From March
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Nottingham had a reputation as among the best of the English provincial art schools and Knight won a series of prizes there, most notably for a series of oil
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War". awm.gov.au. "Ruby Loftus screwing a breech-ring – Dame Laura Knight RA (1877-1970)". Canadian War Museum. "A Gun Girl – Ruby Loftus – Dame Laura Knight's
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Knight's 1943 Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring Rachel Whiteread's 2000 Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna Fiona Banner's 2010 installation of a Royal Air
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in Cardiff as an amateur company. Dame Laura Knight paints Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Newport. National Eisteddfod
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American, Australian, Bengali, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Gujarati, Indian, Jamaican, Kannada, Latin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Sikh, Swedish, Tamil
Reddish; Red Colored Precious Gemstone; Red; Ruby Jewel; Reborn; The Red Gemstone
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Pet form of English Rudolph, RUDY means "famous wolf."
Surname or Lastname
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English : variant of Loftus.
Female
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English name derived from the name of the precious stone, from Latin ruber, RUBY means "red." This is the birthstone for July. Compare with masculine Ruby.Â
Boy/Male
Indian, Modern
Ruby
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Muslim
Ruby, Pearl
Female
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English name derived from the flower name, from Latin lotus, from Greek lotos, a name for various kinds of plants before it came to designate the Egyptian "white lotus." The Greek word may ultimately come from Hebrew lowt, LOTUS means "covering, veil."
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The Red Gemstone; Behold; A Son; Red
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African, Australian, Christian, Danish, Greek
Dreamlike; Lotus Flower
Male
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Pet form of English Reuben, RUBE means "behold, a son!"Â
Male
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Pet form of English Reuben, RUBY means "behold, a son." Compare with feminine Ruby.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Loftus in Cleveland, Lofthouse in West Yorkshire, or Loftsome in East Yorkshire. All are named from Old Norse lopt ‘loft’, ‘upper storey’ + hús ‘house’, the last being derived from the dative plural form, húsum. Houses built with an upper storey (which was normally used for the storage of produce during the winter) were a considerable rarity among the ordinary people of the Middle Ages.Irish : English surname adopted by certain bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Lochlainn (see Laughlin) or Ó Lachtnáin (see Lough).
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English : variant of Brach 2.Possibly an altered spelling of Breetsch, a North German habitational name from a place so named in the Altmark area.
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Muslim American
Ruby. Precious stone.
Female
French
French form of Hebrew Leah, LÉA means "weary."
Female
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Variant spelling of English Ruby, RUBYE means "red" or "ruby."
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Norwegian
Norwegian : habitational name from any of about 20 places so named for having a farmhouse with an upper story (see Loftus).English : variant of Loftus.
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English : possibly a topographic name from Middle English crich(e) ‘creek’, but more likely a habitational name from Creech St. Michael in Somerset or East Creech in Dorset, both named with a Celtic element cr{u:_}g ‘mound’, ‘hill’.Scottish : habitational name from Creich in Fife.Possibly an Americanized spelling of the German names mentioned at Creach 2.
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Ruby, Pearl
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Ruby, Pearl
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, father of a multitude.
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Shape, Summit
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(Κλήμεντος) Greek form of Latin Clementius, KLEMENTOS means "gentle and merciful."
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Meaning of truth
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Supplant. Replace.derived from the latin Jacomus.
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Charity
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Rescue, Salvation, Safety
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Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sikh, Tamil, Telugu
Graceful
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High Thinker
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Variant spelling of Persian Zulaikha, ZULAYKHA means "brilliant beauty."Â
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n.
Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
a.
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
n.
See Lotus.
a.
Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
n.
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
n.
Breeches.
a.
Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
imp. & p. p.
of Breech
v. t.
To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.
v. t.
To put into, or clothe with, breeches.
n.
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
n.
A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
v. t.
To cover as with breeches.
n.
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
v. t.
To whip on the breech.
a.
Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
n.
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
v. t.
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.