guillochen.
/ɡiːˈjəʊʃ//ɡᵻˈləʊʃ/ Architecture.attributive.1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 272 The interlaced, or guilloche ornaments, on the early Scottish crosses.1884 W. Wright Empire of Hittites 145 Along the base of the stone, below the feet, runs a single band of the guilloche pattern.1893 Westm. Gaz. 17 Feb. 6/1 This portion..is marked off by a guilloche border running from end to end.
‘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 n., golose n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > strapwork, etc.
golose1663
strapwork1854
guilloche1857
strip-work1860
1857 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 128 Not only are there fine architectural ornaments,—such as the guilloche, rosettes, leaves and flowers [etc.].
1883 A. Dobson in Eng. Illustr. Mag. 83/1 The ceiling..is painted black, partly gilded, and divided into panels by bands, ornamented with a guilloche.
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guillochev.
/ɡɪˈləʊʃ/, /ɡɪˈlɒʃ/, U.S. /ɡəˈloʊʃ/, /ɡiˈjoʊʃ/ transitive. To decorate with intersecting curved lines, or with any pattern composed of curved lines.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [verb (transitive)] > with strapwork, etc.
quirk1797
guilloche1883
guillochee1886
1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. Guilloched, waved or engine-turned.
Derivatives
guiˈlloched adj.
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