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Fabergé|fabɛrʒe| The name of Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), a Russian jeweller famed for his small, intricate ornaments, used attrib. to designate pieces of his workmanship. Also transf. and fig.
[1902Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 748/1 As a representative of Russia, Fabergé of St. Petersburg deserves to be mentioned.] 1930V. Sackville-West Edwardians iv. 191 The jade ash-trays, the Fabergé cigarette-boxes. 1936G. Greene Journey without Maps ii. iii. 162 A beautiful little green snake..poisonous with gentility, a Fabergé jewel. 1952‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands xiii. 216 It [sc. France seen from an aeroplane] was a small jewelled pattern set in a lapis-lazuli sea; a Fabergé creation. 1959Encounter Oct. 8/1 A sort of Fabergé Russianism clings around parts of Nice. |