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語源

From French guilloche.

発音

• IPA: /ɡɪˈlɒʃ/
• 韻: -ɒʃ

名詞

guilloche (plural guilloches)

1. A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1015:

     A railroad right-of-way, straight across the Balkan Peninsula, conceded in Cyrillic and Arabic script all woven in and out of the loveliest green guilloche by the no-longer-quite-unabsorbed entity of East Roumelia.

2. The tool used to create such work.

派生語

動詞

guilloche (third-person singular simple present guilloches, present participle guilloching, simple past and past participle guilloched)

1. (transitive) To decorate with intersecting curved lines.