Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Artistic in a distinctive and concentrated way, namely, characterized by rich colors, enameling, and iridescence, with decorative effect: applied to glass so produced. See the etymology.
- n. A highly decorative colored, enameled, and iridescent glass, usually in vaseforms.
Wiktionary
- n. art An iridescent glass developed by Tiffany
Examples
“I've been trying to pick about seven items that represent aestheticism, such as paintings by Albert Moore and Evelyn de Morgan, a Louis Comfort Tiffany favrile glass vase, a magazine cover for the periodical Pan.”
“Just as the ancient Egyptians and Persians had used glazed brick and tile, set in cement, as their form of wall decoration, so Mr. Tiffany had used favrile glass, set in cement.”
“Other Tiffany pieces will include a lamp shade of green favrile glass in the Damascene pattern with brilliant iridescence, signed L.C.T. ($12,000-$17,000); a rare bronze sconce with three large inset turtle-back tiles of favrile glass with overall iridescence and original patina”
“The dome itself shimmers with gold: it’s made of 2,836 pieces of gold favrile glass, which was cast in the kilns of Louis Comfort Tiffany on Long Island, and it is magnificent in the way a palace should be magnificent.”
Simon & Schuster: I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
“($15,000-$20,000); and a lamp shade of gold favrile glass in the Demascene pattern, signed L.C.T. Favrile ($10,000-$15,000).”
“With his group, they experimented, and produced this favrile - a term that means handmade.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘favrile’.
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forms/acts: art
threnody, eisegesis, imbricate, screed, lapis, requiem, colophon, homunculus, deus ex machina, apophthegm, anastrophe, anaphora and 47 more...
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color, light & sight
albedo, chromatography, chromatic, tone, penumbra, superluminal, diaphanous, iridescent, amethyst, opalescent, celadon, lapis and 38 more...
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 234 more...
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my GRE words
pedant, wizened, histrionic, logorrhea, frenetic, approbation, quibble, knell, acclivity, droog, prevarication, aplomb and 182 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2055 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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The Glassworks
filigree-glass, vitro-di-trina, reticulated glass, latticinio, schmelze, swing-table, cullet, ratsbane, eskalith, fly-frame, polissoir, flattener and 158 more...
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Other
brouhaha, pulchritude, laudanum, orotund, leviathan, inimical, ephemeral, quiescence, exhort, nemoral, inculcate, cacotopia and 125 more...
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Collection
Many words, all kinds.
pure, damsel, warrior, knight, helenium, endear, gilravage, paraselene, truelove, favrile, embouchure
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Rainbows?!
superciliary, iridal, welkin, heterochrome, gwydion, cerulean, supernal, prismatic, optics, hypethral, cerulific, serein and 29 more...
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Journaliser
Things I may want to touch on in my ledger.
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Unknown
Words I didn't know existed or never thought possible, that I like and want to keep tabs on them or remember them.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for favrile.
fbharjo Favrile is a favrite for reflection.
fabrile is a managed, loomed fabric. Feb 18, 2013
mtc
According to Wikipedia,
Favrile is different from other iridescent glasses because its color is not just on the surface, but embedded in the glass.7 The original trade name Fabrile was derived from an Old English word, fabrile, meaning "hand-wrought" or handcrafted.8 Tiffany later changed the word to Favrile "since this sounded better".9
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favrile_glass)
Feb 18, 2013