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- French · borrowed fromchamplevé“engraved”
- English todaychamplevé
From French champlevé (“engraved”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
champlevé
Today it means: Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enamelled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are then fired. Full definition →
French champlevé