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toise
toise, n. (tɔɪz) In 6 toyse. [a. F. toise:—OF. teise = It. tesa:—Late L. tēsa, tensa (sc. brachia) ‘the outstretched arms’, taken as a fem. sing.: see also the ME. teise, taise.] A French lineal measure of 6 French feet, roughly equal to 1·949 metres, or 62/5 English feet. Chiefly in military use. s... Oxford English Dictionary
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Toise
The old standard was since called "toise de l'Écritoire". In 1766 the Toise of Peru became the official standard of length in France and was renamed Toise of the Academy (). wikipedia.org
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Klafter
of Valais (French-speaking part) 1 klafter = 6 French feet (pieds de roi) Canton of Vaud (metric based from 1822) 1 toise = 10 feet (pieds) = 3.00 metres 1 toise carrée (square) = 100 square feet = 9.00 square metres 1 toise cube or toise courante (cubic) = 1,000 cubic feet = 27 cubic metres Canton wikipedia.org
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over-toise
† over-ˈtoise, v. nonce-wd. [f. over- 10 + toise n.] trans. To measure out in toises.1840 Browning Sordello ii. 828 Implements it sedulous employs To undertake, lay down, mete out, o'ertoise Sordello. Oxford English Dictionary
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taise
▪ I. † teise, taise, n. Obs. Also 5 teis, teys, tayse, tese. [ME. a. OF. teise (11th c. in Godef. Compl.), mod.F. toise, = It. tēsa:—late L. tensa (sc. brachia) the outstretched arms.] 1. A lineal measure of six feet, a fathom; = toise.13.. Sir Beues (A.) 1417 In me prisoun þow schelt abide Vnder þe... Oxford English Dictionary
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Bourride
A variant of bouillabaisse or fish soup à la Sétoise, this fish soup, originally from Provence and Languedoc, is particularly popular in Toulon (Var) and such as mullet, mackerel, sea bass, whiting, conger eel, sea robin, sea bream, cod, turbot, le poisson de St Pierre, or monkfish (for bourride à la Sétoise wikipedia.org
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Mesures usuelles
The new livre (known as the livre métrique) was defined as five hundred grams, and the new toise (toise métrique) was defined as two metres. The mesures usuelles did not include any units of length greater than the toise - the myriamètre (10 km) remaining in use throughout this period. wikipedia.org
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Gabriel Mouton
virga, 1/1000 of a minute of arc, corresponding to 64.4 Bologna inches, or ~2.04 m, was reasonably close to the then current unit of length, the Parisian toise wikipedia.org
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Johann Wilhelm Gottlob Buzengeiger
For the survey planned by Bohnenberger, he made in 1818 replicas of the Toise du Pérou and a heliostat to a design by Carl Friedrich Gauss, a gyroscope wikipedia.org
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土瓦兹
法寻,土瓦兹或图瓦兹(toise)是法国大革命前的传统法国计量单位中的长度,面积和容积计量单位。早期北美法兰西建立的新法兰西,法属路易斯安那和魁北克殖民地也使用这个计量单位。葡萄牙,巴西和葡萄牙帝国也使用相关联的“toesa”计量单位。 参看 传统法国计量单位 英寻 外部连结 Sizes.com toise page Reference from UN United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. wikipedia.org
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Maurice Pirenne
He joined societies and associations linked to archeology and the fine arts: the Royal Commission of Monuments and Sites, the Verviétoise Society of Archeology Writings by Maurice Pirenne Les Constructions verviétoises du VX au XX siècles, bulletin de la Société verviétoise d'Archéologie et d'Histoire, volume wikipedia.org
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Claude Langlois
His instruments were sent on geodesic expeditions to Peru and Lapland in 1733-35 which included measuring standards for the toise (the length standard After his death, his nephew Jacques Canivet produced eighty copies of the Toise. His position at the Academy was taken by a pupil of his, Lennel. wikipedia.org
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Émile Fairon
Works "L'affaire Blanjean: un épisode d'histoire religieuse et diplomatique en 1633-1634", Bulletin de la Société Verviétoise d'Archéologie et d'Histoire wikipedia.org
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French Geodesic Mission to Lapland
The other expedition to Ecuador found it to be 56,734 toise in Ecuador. Jean Picard had surveyed the Paris-Amiens region in 1669, finding a figure of 57,060 toise. wikipedia.org
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Seconds pendulum
He proposed a universal toise (French: Toise universelle) which was twice the length of the seconds pendulum. As the metre had to be equal to one ten-millionth of this distance, it was defined as 0.513074 toise or 3 feet and 11.296 lines of the Toise of Peru. wikipedia.org
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