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guilloché

guilloché is the alternative form of guilloche.

Meaning of guilloche

Noun

guilloche (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.

See all 3 meanings of guilloche

Forms of guilloché

pluralguillochés

Origin of guilloché

Borrowed from French guilloché.

Questions about guilloché

What is guilloché the alternative form of?
Guilloché is the alternative form of guilloche.

Words near guilloché in the dictionary

  1. Guillim
  2. guilloche
  3. guilloched
  4. guilloches
  5. guilloching
  6. guilloché
  7. guillochés
  8. Guillory
  9. Guillotin
  10. guillotinable
  11. guillotine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guilloché (page history and authors); guilloche (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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