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Arabesque
decorative pattern of stylized foliage, characteristic of Muslim art / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arabesque is an artistic decoration. It uses "surface decorations based on... interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines.[1] Another definition is "Foliate ornament, used in the Islamic world, typically using leaves... combined with spiralling stems".[2]
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For other uses, see Arabesque (disambiguation).
Arabesques are usually of a single design which can be 'tiled' or repeated as many times as desired.[3]
The term "arabesque" is used as a technical term by art historians for decoration in Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European decorative art from the Renaissance onwards. Note that Islamic geometric patterns are a different style from arabesques.