ciré
noun
ci·ré sə-ˈrā 
sē-
variants or less commonly cire
1
: a highly glazed finish for fabrics usually achieved by applying wax to the fabric
2
: a fabric or garment with a ciré finish
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The works showed mastery of the cire perdue technique, used by Renaissance sculptors to cast molten metal using waxed molds. 
Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021 This form of cire perdue allowed him to create many of his elaborated molds of spiraling 18-carat gold (mixed to his own specifications to a warm, but not over-warm, tone) in one movement, before putting them in cold water to set. Eve Macsweeney, Vogue, 1 June 2018
Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021 This form of cire perdue allowed him to create many of his elaborated molds of spiraling 18-carat gold (mixed to his own specifications to a warm, but not over-warm, tone) in one movement, before putting them in cold water to set. Eve Macsweeney, Vogue, 1 June 2018 Word History
Etymology
French, from past participle of cirer to wax, from cire wax, from Old French, from Latin cera — more at cerumen
First Known Use
1921, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- contracted for
- contracted heel
- contractibilities
- contractibility
- contractible
- contractiblenesses
- contractile
- contractile cell
- contractile vacuole
- contractilities
- contractility
- contracting
- contracting (for)
- contracting for
- contraction
- contraction joint
- contraction rule
- contractional
- contractionary
- contractionist
- contractions
- contractive
- contractless
- contractometer
- contractor