craquelé

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁa.kle/
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Noun

craquelé m (plural craquelés)

  1. (ceramics) crackle (style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks)
    • 1887, Victor Hugo, “Le premier dîner”, in Choses vues; republished as John W. Harding, transl., The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, 1899:
      Le dîner était médiocre et le prince avait raison de s’excuser. Le service en porcelaine blanche commune, l’argenterie bourgeoise, usée et grossière. Au milieu de la table, il y avait un assez beau vase en craquelé, monté en cuivre doré du mauvais goût Louis XVI.
      The dinner was a very ordinary one, and the Prince did well to excuse himself. The service was of common white china and the silverware bourgeois, worn, and gross. In the middle of the table was a rather fine vase of craquelé, ornamented with ormolu in the bad taste of the time of Louis XVI.

Descendants

  • → German: Craquelé

Participle

craquelé (feminine craquelée, masculine plural craquelés, feminine plural craquelées)

  1. past participle of craqueler

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