In their complex and richly figured substances, there is more than one echo of French mille-fleurs tapestry.

What will envelope them on the landing of the grand staircase with its richly figured iron grillwork is the air of an elegant French hunting lodge.

A goateed mythical animal - resting on its bony legs, its back embellished with a saddlelike, richly figured grate - functions as a censer.

Rather Mr. Berezovsky seemed to have, beside the 20 fingers needed just to play this music, another 10 to coax, warm, polish and expressively color its melodies and richly figured surfaces.

Today, it generally denotes a linen texture richly figured in the weaving with flowers, fruit, forms of animal life, and other types of ornament.

The dolls seem, at first, vaguely medieval in their richly figured dresses.

The same richly figured detailing appears on a grander scale on the ecclesiastical pieces - the chalices, crosses, altars and vestments.

Maris is a beautiful woman, richly figured, if a bit overweight.

Both spent their time mainly in Leningrad, a city that figures richly in the book.

There are 19th-century conch-shell trumpets used to call monks to prayer, mounted in gilded metalwork richly figured with dragons and flowers.