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单词 guilloche
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Definition of guilloche in English:

guilloche

noun ɡɪˈləʊʃɡɪˈlɒʃɡəˈlōSH
mass noun
  • Ornamentation resembling braided or interlaced ribbons.

    a wide strip of eight-strand guilloche
    as modifier a guilloche border
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The stand is decorated with a complex array of stamped motifs in registers, including guilloches, disk-and-lozenge motifs, outlined tongues, and linked shield bosses, separated by groups of incised bands.
    • The reused pithos is decorated in relief with a guilloche band and a register of cranes.
    • For example, Deacon John Moore is affiliated with the foliated vine group; Aaron Cook with the ogee molding group; and William Buell with the guilloche group.
    • In the eastern part there was a large lekane with two registers of impressed relief decoration: one with a guilloche band, and the other with alternating cranes and sphinxes.
    • The egg is enamelled in cobalt blue on a shell of guilloche (elaborately patterned) sterling silver.
    • The most jealously guarded technical secret of his workshops, and their main claim to fame, was their transparent, or guilloche, enamel.
    • Registers of incised lotus chains, guilloche, and wave patterns, separated by sets of ridges, decorate the surface of the Azoria piece.
    • In the carpet a foliate guilloche border replaced the geometric, more architectural guilloche border of the drawing.
    • They had at their disposal more than 140 colors of enamel and dozens of guilloche patterns.
    • The oval shape, the guilloche, or engine-turned, ground overlaid with translucent enamel, and the contrasts of translucent and opaque areas are all copied from French boxes.
    • In addition, the decoration incorporates translucent, opaque, guilloche, and champleve enamels as well as a garland of cast-gold and enameled flowers.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French guillochis, denoting the ornamentation, or guilloche, a carving tool.

Rhymes

gauche
 
 

Definition of guilloche in US English:

guilloche

nounɡəˈlōSH
  • Architectural ornamentation resembling braided or interlaced ribbons.

    a wide strip of eight-strand guilloche
    as modifier a guilloche border
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For example, Deacon John Moore is affiliated with the foliated vine group; Aaron Cook with the ogee molding group; and William Buell with the guilloche group.
    • In addition, the decoration incorporates translucent, opaque, guilloche, and champleve enamels as well as a garland of cast-gold and enameled flowers.
    • The most jealously guarded technical secret of his workshops, and their main claim to fame, was their transparent, or guilloche, enamel.
    • In the eastern part there was a large lekane with two registers of impressed relief decoration: one with a guilloche band, and the other with alternating cranes and sphinxes.
    • In the carpet a foliate guilloche border replaced the geometric, more architectural guilloche border of the drawing.
    • The reused pithos is decorated in relief with a guilloche band and a register of cranes.
    • Registers of incised lotus chains, guilloche, and wave patterns, separated by sets of ridges, decorate the surface of the Azoria piece.
    • They had at their disposal more than 140 colors of enamel and dozens of guilloche patterns.
    • The oval shape, the guilloche, or engine-turned, ground overlaid with translucent enamel, and the contrasts of translucent and opaque areas are all copied from French boxes.
    • The stand is decorated with a complex array of stamped motifs in registers, including guilloches, disk-and-lozenge motifs, outlined tongues, and linked shield bosses, separated by groups of incised bands.
    • The egg is enamelled in cobalt blue on a shell of guilloche (elaborately patterned) sterling silver.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French guillochis, denoting the ornamentation, or guilloche, a carving tool.

 
 
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