MILLEFIORI


Meaning of MILLEFIORI in English

/mil'euh fee awr"ee, -ohr"ee/ , n.

decorative glass made by fusing multicolored glass canes together, cutting them crosswise, joining them into new groups, embedding the groups in transparent glass, and blowing the resultant mass into a desired shape.

Also, millefiore .

[ 1840-50; mille thousand ( fiori, pl. of fiore flori- (s. of flos ) FLOWER ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .