millefiori
or mil·le·fi·o·re
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
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How to use millefiori in a sentence
millefiori or chevron bead of yellow and black glass, almost certainly Venetian.
Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology | Ivor Noel HumeThe central pendant, also circular, is ornamented with a section from a rod of Roman millefiori glass set in gold.
Jewellery | H. Clifford Smith,
British Dictionary definitions for millefiori
/ (ˌmɪlɪˈfjɔːrɪ) /
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
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