millefiori glass

millefiori glass

mil·le·fi·o·ri glass

M5325050 (mĭl′ə-fē-ôr′ē)n. Decorative glass having a multicolored floral or mosaiclike pattern, made using glass rods that are fused together from smaller, variously colored and shaped rods and cut in cross section.
[Italian millefiori : mille, thousand (from Old Italian, from Latin mīlle; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots) + fiori, pl. of fiore, flower (from Old Italian, from Latin flōs, flōr-; see bhel- in Indo-European roots).]