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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Architecture An ornamental border formed of two or more curved bands that interlace to repeat a circular design.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To decorate with intersecting curved lines, or with any pattern composed of curved lines.
  2. n. An ornamental pattern composed of intersecting curved lines, as the usual decoration of watch-cases; in architecture, an ornament in the form of two or more bands or ribbons interlacing or braided or twisted over each other so as to repeat the same figure in a continued series of spirals. The term is applied, but improperly, to a fret.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A fine engraving pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.; or the tool used to create such work.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Arch.) An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.
  2. n. In ornamental art, any pattern made by interlacing curved lines.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bands

Etymologies

  1. From French guilloche. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, tool used in making the ornamentation or French guillochis, guilloche. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee That is nifty. Thanks, c_b. Nov 21, 2010

  • chained_bear Also seen in this nifty article. Nov 16, 2010

  • strev unlike the guillotine which has an intersecting sharpish edge that undoes forms when it it put to task Jun 16, 2009

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‘guilloche’ has been looked up 1796 times, added to 24 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.