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cloisonné
[ kloi-zuh-ney; French klwa-zaw-ney ]
noun
- enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin metal bands fixed edgewise to the ground.
adjective
- pertaining to, forming, or resembling cloisonné or the pattern of cloisonné.
cloisonné
/ klwɑːˈzɒneɪ; klwazɔne /
noun
- a design made by filling in with coloured enamel an outline of flattened wire put on edge
- the method of doing this
adjective
- of, relating to, or made by cloisonné
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cloisonné1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cloisonné1
C19: from French, from cloisonner to divide into compartments, from cloison partition, ultimately from Latin claudere to close ²
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Example Sentences
There were many flowers in the room—some in Cloisonne vases, others in gimcrack vessels such as are bought at country fairs.
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Nammikawa, the cloisonne-worker at Tokio, could have made a better moon.
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They continued along one of the lower galleries of this cloisonne factory, and came to a little bridge that spanned a vault.
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And nothing, in my judgment, more clearly exhibits this union of taste and skill than the Cloisonne work.
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