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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Decorative enamelwork in which metal filaments are fused to the surface of an object to outline a design that is filled in with enamel paste.
- noun The art or process of producing such enamelwork.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having partitions; partitioned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from
champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
cloisonne .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired
- noun enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, past participle of cloisonner, to partition, from Old French cloison, partition, from Vulgar Latin *clausiō, clausiōn-, from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere, to close, lock.]
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