guilloched

English

Etymology

guilloche +‎ -ed

Adjective

guilloched (not comparable)

  1. Waved or engine-turned.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mollett to this entry?)
    • 1856, Edward Shaw, The Modern Architect, Or, Every Carpenter His Own Master
      This example is much richer, yet no less elegant, than the other; the volute, instead of a single spiral, is formed by three; the sculptured echinus beneath is surmounted by a guilloched moulding, and separated from the shaft by a neck […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for guilloched in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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