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Webster 1913 Edition
Guilloche
‖
Guil′locheˊ
,Noun.
[F.
guillochis
; – said to be fr. Guillot
, the inventor of a machine for carving it.] (Arch.)
1.
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.
Definition 2024
guilloche
guilloche
See also: guilloché
English
Noun
guilloche (plural guilloches)
- A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1015:
- A railroad right-of-way, straight across the Balkan Peninsula, conceded in Cyrillic and Arabic script all woven in and out of the loveliest green guilloche by the no-longer-quite-unabsorbed entity of East Roumelia.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1015:
- The tool used to create such work.