guilloche
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Noun (1)
- an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bandsType of architectural ornament
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Guil′loche′ noun
Origin: F. guillochis; — said to be fr. Guillot, the inventor of a machine for carving it.
Architecture 1. An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.
2. In ornamental art, any pattern made by interlacing curved lines.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement