verrière

[ ver-ee-air; French ve-ryer ]

noun

, plural ver·ri·ères [ver-ee-, airz, ve-, ryer].

1. a French bowl similar to a monteith in form and use.

Word History and Origins

Origin of verrière¹

< French: glass stand, frame

Example Sentences

The most striking exterior feature of the new architectural model is a billowing, wavelike wall of translucent glass meant to unify the Rue de Rivoli side both by referring to the original verrière roof and by creating a single visual unit that pulls the façades together.

From The New Yorker

The Fondation’s distinctive shell, which Gehry refers to as the Verrière, consists of a dozen of the monumental glass sail forms, all variously angled and overlapping.

From Architectural Digest

The Iceberg is clad in luminous white panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, while the Verrière is held aloft by a network of steel trusses and wood beams in a bravura feat of architectural acrobatics.

From Architectural Digest

And here again, under the immemorial name of Notre Dame de la belle Verrière, she held an infant in a dress of raisin-purple, a child barely visible in the mixture of dark hues all about it.

From Project Gutenberg

"She was a very notable woman, la belle Verrière, as she was called; and she managed the glass factory for many years after her husband's death, and made lots of money for her two daughters."

From Project Gutenberg