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Mrs 'Arris Goes To Paris is a comedy starring Angela Lansbury, Omar Sharif, Diana Rigg and Lothaire Bluteau in a story about an English maid determined to travel to Paris and buy a designer dress from a couture house.
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In architecture an arris is the sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved. The term is applied particularly to the edges in mouldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. An arris presents a particular challenge to decorators as paint tends to recede from a sharp angle.
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In architecture, an arris fillet is a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimney or wall, to throw off the rain.
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An arris gutter is a gutter of a V form fixed to the eaves of a building.
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In architecture a beak is a continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet forming that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
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In architecture, an eaves board is an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles.
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In painting and decorating, a fat edge is a thick ridge of paint that occurs on a corner or arris.
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