guilloche
/ɡɪˈləʊʃ
/ /ɡɪˈlɒʃ/noun [mass noun]
Ornamentation resembling braided or interlaced ribbons: a wide strip of eight-strand guilloche [as modifier]: a guilloche border...
- In the carpet a foliate guilloche border replaced the geometric, more architectural guilloche border of the drawing.
- In addition, the decoration incorporates translucent, opaque, guilloche, and champleve enamels as well as a garland of cast-gold and enameled flowers.
- Registers of incised lotus chains, guilloche, and wave patterns, separated by sets of ridges, decorate the surface of the Azoria piece.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from French guillochis, denoting the ornamentation, or guilloche, a carving tool.
Rhymes
- public menace
- publicness
- public nuisance
- public offer
- public offering
- public office
- public opinion
- public orator
- public ownership
- public park
- public policy
- public prosecutor
- public purse
- Public Record Office
- public relations
- public room
- public school
- public school boy
- public-schoolboyish
- public schooling
- public-schoolish
- public-schoolishness
- public-schooly
- public sector
- public servant