guilloche
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See also: guilloché
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guilloche (plural guilloches)
- A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 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.
- The tool used to create such work.
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guilloche (third-person singular simple present guilloches, present participle guilloching, simple past and past participle guilloched)
- (transitive) To decorate with intersecting curved lines.
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
guilloche f (plural guilloches)