Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Architecture An ornamental border formed of two or more curved bands that interlace to repeat a circular design.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To decorate with intersecting curved lines, or with any pattern composed of curved lines.
- 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
- n. A fine engraving pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.; or the tool used to create such work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
- n. In ornamental art, any pattern made by interlacing curved lines.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bands
Etymologies
- From French guilloche. (Wiktionary)
- French, tool used in making the ornamentation or French guillochis, guilloche. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A Bright Idea guilloche Caldwell says he's one of few artisans who know a special technique called guilloche, which scrapes reflective indentations into his metal pieces to create a radiating shine.”
“An ornament known as the guilloche is found in many countries.”
“This practice is called guilloche, and probably best done by the Germans today.”
“The birds are depicted using three different enameling processes and guilloche, a delicate method of engraving watch dials.”
“Peter Carl Fabergé designer Mikhail Perkhin, workmaster Imperial Blue Serpent Egg Gold, blue guilloche enamel, opalescent white enamel, diamonds, sapphires”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Artistic Luxury': 100-Year-Old Bling
“In addition, the floor was paved with a nice mosaic "carpet" in black, white, purple, and orange, representing central guilloche motifs, bordered by bead-and-reels that were lined by chevrons.”
“It possessed a broad edge consisting of diagonal lines in these six colors, colorful meanders lined with black and white tesserae and a guilloche motif (combinations of purple-white, yellow-white, red-orange-white) on a dark background.”
“Among the few in colour, a preliminary mock-up had a fabulous complex guilloche of intertwining threads, which formed a centre roundel.”
“Speaking generally, the design is formed by nine octagon figures, three by three, surrounded and divided by a guilloche cable band; the interspaces of the octagons are filled by four smaller square patterns, and the outer octagon spaces by 12 triangles.”
“The sort of guilloche of interlacing circles was very generally used.”
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Tweets
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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