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cloisonne
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n. (alternative spelling of cloisonne English)
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Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects, in recent centuries using vitreous enamel , and in older periods also inlays of cut gemstones , glass, and other materials. The resulting objects can also be called cloisonné . The decoration ...
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adj. (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired [syn: champleve ] n. enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"divided into compartments," 1863, from French cloisonné , from cloison "a partition" (12c., in Old French, "enclosure"), from Provençal clausio , from Vulgar Latin *clausio , noun of action from past participle stem of claudere "to close, shut" (see clause ...
Usage examples of cloisonne.
X, who snatched it with ivory chopsticks, dredged it through an exquisite cloisonné bowl filled with chemical dessicant, and arranged it on a small windowpane of solid diamond.
He listened indifferently at first, but when she told him of the rugs, the real lace which edged the curtains, and the Cloisonne vase, he became much interested.
Barlow was very striking in person: a tall, craggy-faced, bearded, deep-voiced Wyomingan in a dashing Western ensemble of jeans, jacket, cowboy boots, a knotted throat-kerchief and an ever-present Grateful Dead cloisonne lapel pin.
Gray qheuens, their broad chitin shells embellished with gemstone cloisonne, sculpted wicked impromptu caricatures of the party guests, using their adroit mouths to carve statuettes of solid stone.
The most unusual thing Jimmy had managed to score on his swing through the archipelago was a head, an intricately worked bust, cloisonné over platinum, studded with seed pearls and lapis.
Here, on a plain pedestal of glass, rests an ornate bust, platinum and cloisonné, studded with lapis and pearl.
There isn't a piece of cloisonné in it, or a garment, or so much as a nail from the old shop.