guilloche

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/ɡɪˈlɒʃ//ɡɪˈləʊʃ/

noun

A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.

OriginFrench guilloche →
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Meanings

nounguilloche (plural guilloches)

plural guilloches

  1. A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.

    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.

    2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1015
  2. The tool used to create such work.
verbguilloche (third-person singular simple present guilloches, present participle guilloching, simple past and past participle guilloched)

present singular third person guilloches · participle present guilloching · participle past guilloched · past guilloched

  1. transitiveTo decorate with intersecting curved lines.

Origin

  1. Frenchguilloche
  2. Englishguilloche

From French guilloche.

More words from French

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Translations

French guilloche
  • guillochepattern
German Guilloche
  • Guillochepattern
Polish gilosz, gilosz
  • giloszpattern
  • gilosztool

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with guilloche

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Cite this entry
APA

guilloche. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guilloche

MLA

“guilloche.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guilloche. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guilloche,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guilloche.

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