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= guilloche, n. (Cf. galace, n.)
(see quot. 1854); also attributive.
‘An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisting over each other, so as to repeat the same figure, in a continued series, by the…
(a) Architecture = strapwork n. at strap, n. compounds 2; (b) = strip-armour n.