Meanings
plural gadroons
- Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.
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Owing possibly to some flaw in his mental make-up, Uncle Tom has been collecting old silver since I was so high […]. I knew all about that collection of his, not only because I had had to listen to him for hours on the subject of sconces, foliation, ribbon wreaths in high relief and gadroon borders, but because I had what you might call a personal interest in it, once having stolen an eighteenth-century cow-creamer for him.
1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V - architectureA godroon.
Origin
- Dutchkodde“piece of cylindrical wood”
- Middle Frenchgoderon
- Frenchgodron
- Englishgadroon
From French godron, from Middle French goderon, from a form of godet (“vase with wavy edges”) + -(e)ron, from Dutch kodde (“piece of cylindrical wood”). Also probably related to goder (“to pucker”).
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Persian خیاره
- خیاره (xiyâre)decorative curves
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gadroon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gadroon
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