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单词 guilloche
释义 I. guilloche, n. Arch.
(gɪˈləʊʃ, Fr. gijoʃ)
[a. or ad. F. guillochis the ornament itself or guilloche the tool with which it is made.]
‘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 spiral returning of the bands’ (Gwilt Encycl. Archit. 1842). See also galace, golose.
1857Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 128 Not only are there fine architectural ornaments,—such as the guilloche, rosettes, leaves and flowers [etc.].1883A. Dobson in Eng. Illustr. Mag. 83/1 The ceiling..is painted black, partly gilded, and divided into panels by bands, ornamented with a guilloche.
attrib.1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. ix. 272 The interlaced, or guilloche ornaments, on the early Scottish crosses.1884W. Wright Empire Hittites 145 Along the base of the stone, below the feet, runs a single band of the guilloche pattern.1893Westm. Gaz. 17 Feb. 6/1 This portion..is marked off by a guilloche border running from end to end.
II. guilloche, v.|gɪˈləʊʃ|
[ad. F. guillocher.]
trans. To decorate with intersecting curved lines, or with any pattern composed of curved lines. Hence guiˈlloched ppl. a.
1883J. W. Mollett Dict. Art & Archæol., Guilloched, waved or engine-turned.
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