millefiori

or mil·le·fi·o·re

[ mil-uh-fee-awr-ee, -ohr-ee ]

noun
  1. decorative glass made by fusing multicolored glass canes together, cutting them crosswise, joining them into new groups, embedding the groups in transparent glass, and blowing the resultant mass into a desired shape.

Origin of millefiori

1
1840–50; <Italian, equivalent to mille thousand (<Latin ) + fiori, plural of fiore<Latin flōri- (stem of flōs) flower

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British Dictionary definitions for millefiori

millefiori

/ (ˌmɪlɪˈfjɔːrɪ) /


noun
    • decorative glassware in which coloured glass rods are fused and cut to create flower patterns: an ancient technique revived in Venice in the sixteenth century and in France and England in the nineteenth century

    • (as modifier): a millefiori paperweight

Origin of millefiori

1
C19: from Italian: thousand flowers

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