vitraux

English

Etymology

From French vitraux, plural of vitrail.

Noun

vitraux

1. plural of vitrail
   • 1966 April 16, Rea Montbizon, “Gillen, Chapdelaine At Galerie Libre”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page 20, column 6:

     A viewing device was clicking off a series of transparencies, showing vitraux and mosaics by the Luxembourg artist Francois Gillen. […] Some of his abstract vitraux are truly beautiful. […] Thus a tall blue and red window for a church in Wintrage, a glorious yellow vitrail for the church of Freistroff on the Moselle.

   • 1983, The Connoisseur, page 15:

     SAVE THE VITRAUX […] over the first three windows cleaned at Chartres (which brightened the naturally aged colors around the celebrated blues, making them less striking) that it looked for a while as if the remaining vitraux would be left to darken further and die.

   • 1991, Bohemian Glass: Tradition and Present, Crystalex, page 41, column 2:

     […] glass of the required colour originated, from which the vitraux […]

   • 1995, The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, The Wolfson Foundation of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Inc., pages 124, 188, and 191:

     Tiffany and Company of New York created vitraux for shop windows and lamp designs for homes. […] Gomide experimented in these areas, making frescoes, vitraux, and watercolors. […] He designed all of a house’s components: furniture (fig. 14), paintings (fig. 15), reliefs in the form of wall panels, curtains, doors, objects, lighting, windows, shelves, vitraux, and frescoes; […]

   • 1997, Stained Glass: Quarterly of the Stained Glass Association of America, page 171, column 1:

     The glass was blown especially at the St. Gobain Works in France, employing the ancient techniques used in the vitraux of Chartres and Notre Dame in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The vitrail contains dozens of colors and shades.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.tʁo/

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Noun

vitraux m

1. plural of vitrail