soliflor
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Noun[edit]
soliflor (plural soliflors)
- A vase designed to hold a single flower
- 1987, Georges Perec, Life, a user's manual: fictions, page 319:
- A black telephone, a notepad, a tortoiseshell propelling pencil, a minute conical paperweight with a base less than an inch in diameter but whose small size does not prevent it from weighing three "troy ounces", that is to say 93 grammes, and a Gallé soliflor containing a purple moonflower, a variety of everlasting flower also called Star of the Nile, combine to clutter the table's narrow top.
- 2005, Abitare - Issues 453-456, page 415:
- Examples include the soliflor that turns into a candleholder (1981); the "Bellman " drinking glasses she designed to pay explicit tribute to anonymous objects (1982); and the small oil bottle that draws attention to its spherical stopper, which is only bevelled so it doesn't roll away.
- 2010, Tiny Esveld, Glass made transparent, →ISBN, page 82:
- Six Etablissements Gallé soliflor vases 1904-1936. This type of soliflor was made many times.