Historical Examples. 1  When he heard the drums he flared up like a spark in the tinder. 2  It's yersel' knows the tinder feet that's on me since ever I 've bin in this counthry. 3  You see I have the tinder now safely secured in my tinder-box. 4  I want one of these sparks, if I can persuade it to do so, to fall on my tinder. The Story of a Tinder-box Charles Meymott Tidy Here is the flint, the tinder being contained in this little box.
The signature is reproduced in black paint. Fountain has been seen as a quintessential example, along with Duchampâs Bottle Rack 1914, of what he called a â readymade â, an ordinary manufactured object designated by the artist as a work of art (and, in Duchampâs case, interpreted in some way).
But the object that most drew my attention to the mysterious package was a certain affair of fine red cloth, much worn and faded, There were traces about it of gold embroidery, which, however, was greatly frayed and defaced, so that none, or very little, of the glitter was left.