barbola
/bɑːˈbəʊlə
/(also barbola work)
noun [mass noun]
The craft of making small models of fruit or flowers from a plastic paste.Some of them specialize in thangka paintings, some barbola, and some clay sculpture....
- The Tangka, barbola and sculptures of Regong Art feature refined craftsmanship and skillfully blended vibrant colors.
- It is a palace of Regong art treasures, collecting and exhibiting various masterpieces of thangka, barbola, sculpture, and sand table design.
Origin
1920s: an arbitrary formation from barbotine.
Rhymes
- free soil
- free-soiler
- free-soilism
- free space
- free speech
- free-spending
- free spirit
- free-spirited
- free-spoken
- free spool
- free spooling
- free stall
- free-standing
- Free State
- Free Stater
- free stock
- freestone
- freestone mason
- free stream
- free streaming
- free stuff
- freestyle
- freestyler
- free suitor
- free-swimming