Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A partition; a dividing band; specifically, a fillet used in cloisonné work. Also spelled
cloisson . Seecloisonné .
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Examples
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Inside the three-story bastide (in the salon*), Manou's husband had knocked down a cloison* and brought in a giant stone fireplace.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Inside the three-story bastide (in the salon*), Manou's husband had knocked down a cloison* and brought in a giant stone fireplace.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Inside the three-story bastide (in the salon*), Manou's husband had knocked down a cloison* and brought in a giant stone fireplace.
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Inside the three-story bastide in the salon*, Manou's husband had knocked down a cloison* and brought in a giant stone fireplace.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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Inside the three-story bastide in the salon*, Manou's husband had knocked down a cloison* and brought in a giant stone fireplace.
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These tints were always fused separately, one in each cloison: the Greeks in this period never tried to blend colours, and more than one tint never appears in
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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The next step is to put the powder in its destined cloison, and to place the whole jewel upon a thin piece of iron, over which fits a cover to protect the enamel from the coals, and put it in the most intensely hot part of the fire. "
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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26 / 27 Eléments modulaires pour la bibliothèque teint rouvre soutenue à cloison par des brides en aluminium.
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