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gapers (shop signs, identification signs, ... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) |
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Note: The gaper or "yawner" is a typically Dutch shop sign in the form of a head carved in wood or stone. The head is almost always a sylized depiction of a Moorish man with his mouth open to receive medicine. These were displayed to indicate the location of a pharmacy.
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| gapers (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
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| gapers (Dutch,D,U,U)
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| gaper (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
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| gaper (Dutch,AD,U,U)
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Facet/Hierarchy Code: V.VW |
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Objects Facet |
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.... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) (G) |
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........ Information Forms (hierarchy name) (G) |
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............ information forms (objects) (G) |
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................ information artifacts (G) |
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.................... <information artifacts by function> (G) |
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........................ <declaratory and advertising artifacts> (G) |
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............................ signs (declatory or advertising artifacts) (G) |
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................................ <signs by function> (G) |
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.................................... identification signs (G) |
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........................................ shop signs (G) |
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............................................ gapers (P,U) |
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| Dutch ..... De gaper is een typisch Nederlandse winkelteken. Het gaperbeeld was vaak van Moorse verschijning met zijn tong uitgestoken. |
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