Faberge

Definition: Faberge

Faberge

Noun

1. Russian goldsmith noted for creating a series of jeweled and enameled Easter eggs for European royalty (1846-1920).

Specialty Definition: Peter Carl Fabergé

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Peter Carl Fabergé (May 30, 1846 - September 24, 1920) was a jeweller, best known for his fabulous Fabergé eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggss, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials.
He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to the jeweler Gustav Fabergé and his Danish wife Charlotte Jungstedt. The family moved to Dresden in 1860, and shortly thereafter the teenager went on a study trip, learning the jeweller's craft at the House of Friedman in Frankfurt am Main. In 1864 he returned to St. Petersburg and joined his father's business, taking over management of it in 1872.
Peter Carl and his younger brother Agathon were a sensation at the Pan-Russian Exhibition held in Moscow in 1882. In 1885, Tsar Alexander III appointed him the Court Supplier, as a reward for the first of the Easter eggs (the Hen Egg). Thereafter Fabergé made an egg each year for the Tsar, who gave each to the Tsarina. Tsar Nicholas II ordered two eggs each year, one for his wife and one for his mother, a practice continued from 1895 to 1916.
Fabergé did far more than just eggs; in 1896 the company produced all the gifts given during the coronation ceremonies for Nicholas II.
In 1897 the Swedish court appointed Fabergé Court Goldsmith, and in 1900 his work represented Russia at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. He became the Tsar's Court Goldsmith in 1910. Fabergé's company was the largest in Russia with 500 employees, and branches in Moscow, Odessa, Kiev, and London. It produced some 150,000 objects between 1882 and 1917.
But in 1917, in the chaos of the October Revolution, he sold his shares in the company to his employees and fled to Wiesbaden. He died a few years later in Lausanne, Switzerland, and was buried next to his wife Augusta in Cannes, France.
His sons Eugene and Alexander founded a successor company Fabergé; as of 2003 it was part of the jeweller Victor Mayer.

References

Charles Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court. His Life and Work (1949, reprinted 1971) Bainbridge was a personal friend of Fabergé, and later managed the London branch.
Abraham Kenneth Snowman, Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia (Random House, 1988) ISBN 0517405024
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peter Carl Faberg�."

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Synonym: Faberge

Synonym: Peter Carl Faberge (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Faberge

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Englishman. Likes eggs, preferably Faberge, and dice, preferably loaded (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser)
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Commercial Usage: Faberge

Domain	Title
Books	Faberge Eggs: Masterpieces from Czarist Russia (reference) Peter Carl Faberge Goldsmith and Jeweller (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Faberge

"Faberge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Faberge" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Faberge

Expression using "Faberge": Peter Carl Faberge. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Faberge

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
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faberge cologne	3	cuff faberge link	2
faberge watch	3	faberge frame picture	2
eggs faberge goose	3	art.com faberge	2
peter carl faberge	3	buy eggs faberge real	2
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Misspellings: Faberge

Misspellings
	"Faberge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fabrega, Faegri, Fambare. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Faberge

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-g-r"
	-1 letter: barege, bargee.
	-2 letters: agree, barge, eager, eagre, grebe, ragee.
	-3 letters: agee, ager, bare, barf, bear, beef, beer, berg, brae, brag, bree, eger, fare, fear, fere, frae, frag, free, garb, gear, grab, gree, rage, reef.
	-4 letters: age, arb, are, arf, bag, bar, bee, beg, bra, ear, era, ere, erg, fag, far, fee, fer, gab, gae.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-f-g-r"
	+2 letters: forgeable.
	+3 letters: freebasing.
	+4 letters: forgettable, refrangible.
	+5 letters: fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fibreglasses, irrefragable.
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