soliflor

Noun

soliflor (plural soliflors)

1. A vase designed to hold a single flower
   • A black telephone, a notepad, a tortoiseshell propelling pencil, a minute conical paperweight with a base less than an inch in diameter but whose small size does not prevent it from weighing three "troy ounces", that is to say 93 grammes, and a Gallé soliflor containing a purple moonflower, a...1987, Georges Perec, Life, a user's manual: fictions, page 319
   • Examples include the soliflor that turns into a candleholder (1981); the "Bellman " drinking glasses she designed to pay explicit tribute to anonymous objects (1982); and the small oil bottle that draws attention to its spherical stopper, which is only bevelled so it doesn't roll away.2005, Abitare - Issues 453-456, page 415