millefiori
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A way of making glass decorations with many small flower patterns
- noun
- /ˌmɪlɪˈfɪəri/
- Specialized
:
millefiori
- The artisan crafted beautiful millefiori glass items that showcased intricate, colorful floral images.
Examples
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"Yes, but can you identify millefiori?"
Fiction book (1992) -
The vase featured exquisite millefiori patterns that looked like a garden of tiny flowers.
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She wore a necklace made of millefiori beads, each one displaying vibrant floral designs.
Surface Forms
millefiori singular
millefioris plural
Etymology
Millefiori comes from the Italian words mille ('thousand') and fiori ('flowers'), so the name means 'a thousand flowers' and gives a clear picture of the glass technique that makes many tiny, flower-like patterns.