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n. (alternative form of Fabergé egg English)
alt. 1 One of the thousands of decorated Easter egg made by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Faberg%C3%A9 from 1885 to 1917, especially one of the 69 large jeweled pieces made for Russian imperial family and a few other customers. 2 (context informal English) Any decorated egg. n. 1 One of the thousands of decorated Easter egg made by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Faberg%C3%A9 from 1885 to 1917, especially one of the 69 large jeweled pieces made for Russian imperial family and a few other customers. 2 (context informal English) Any decorated egg.
Wikipedia
A Fabergé egg (; yaytsa faberzhe) is one of a limited number of jeweled eggs created by Peter Carl Fabergé and his company between 1885 and 1917. The most famous are those made for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II as Easter gifts for their wives and mothers, often called the "Imperial" Fabergé eggs. The House of Fabergé made about 50 eggs, of which 43 have survived. Two more were planned for Easter 1918, but were not delivered, due to the Russian Revolution.
After the revolution, the Fabergé family left Russia (see House of Fabergé). The Fabergé trademark has since been sold several times and several companies have retailed egg-related merchandise using the Fabergé name. The Victor Mayer jewelry company produced limited edition heirloom quality Fabergé eggs authorized under Unilever's license from 1998 to 2009. The trademark is now owned by Fabergé Limited, which makes egg-themed jewellery.
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Usage examples of "faberge egg".
This time the bright Faberge egg ships bounced toward narhii-Vhiliinyar rather than from it, and only one lone ship, the new one she'd seen the techoartisans working on with the clan colors of Acorna's illustrious clan ancestress, bounced up from the planet's surface.
In a matter of an hour or two, the Faberge egg crate spaceport was emptied of ships.
He picked up the field gun, admiring it from every angle as if it were a Faberge egg.
It was Caroline's impression that Adams was kept like some rare fragile Faberge egg in a carefully arranged, all-cushioned and heated, nest: would the egg then hatch?
In the image on the screen Stickney's dome shone like a Faberge egg, but the eye was drawn away from that to the moon's leading edge, which was blurry and streaked with white flashes of ejecta and gases.
The dummy was a featureless pink plaster head in a ratty wig, but it was hinged at the ears so that the face could split open down the middle and reveal an inner structure of blue muscles and a white skull as intricate as a Faberge egg.
Paul's Cathedral rising like a Faberge egg from the white stone lattice of the City.
It was the sort of cake that used to be sold in common milk shops, and was now a fantasy found only in the most special buffets - a little less rare, say, than a Faberge egg.