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Cloisonne

Definition: Cloisonne

Cloisonne

Adjective

1. (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired.

Noun

1. Enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Cloisonne

Synonym: champleve (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cloisonne

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ornament

Adjective: ornamented, beautified; Verb: ornate, rich, gilt, begilt, tesselated, festooned; champleve, cloisonne, topiary.

Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling.

Sculpture

Marble, bronze, terra cotta, papier-mache; ceramic ware, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon, satsuma.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Cloisonne

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chinese Cloisonne (reference)

  • Cloisonne Enameling and Jewelry Making (reference)

  • CloisonnE, the Art of CloisonnE Enameling and Jewelry Making (reference)

  • Japanese Cloisonne (reference)

  • Oriental Cloisonne and Other Enamels: A Guide to Collecting and Repairing (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cloisonne

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Usage Frequency: Cloisonne

"Cloisonne" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Cloisonne" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75%3202,518
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Expression: Cloisonne

Expression using "cloisonne": champleve cloisonne enameled. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cloisonne

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cloisonne

122

cloisonne enamel

4

cloisonne pin

49

cloisonne lapel pin

3

cloisonne bead

15

antique cloisonne

3

cloisonne vase

13

cloisonne bracelet

3

cloisonne jewelry

9

china cloisonne

3

japanese cloisonne

7

cloisonne pendant

3

cloisonne new

6

bell cloisonne

3

chinese cloisonne

6

chinese cloisonne vase

2

cloisonne urn

5

art cloisonne

2

chinese cloisonne jewelry

5

cloisonne eggs

2

cloisonne locket

5

chinese cloisonne floral jar

2

antique chinese cloisonne

5

cloisonne life tree

2

croscill cloisonne

4

cloisonne fish

2

cloisonne como fabricados jarrones

4

cloisonne pin wholesale

2

wholesale cloisonne bead

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cloisonne

Language Translations for "cloisonne"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

емайл с фигури. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(cloisonne ware, enamel ware). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zománcmunka (enamelling, enamel-painting, enamel-work), mûvészi zománcmunka. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

七宝 (the 7 treasures). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しっぽう (the 7 treasures). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oisonneclay

   

Portuguese

  

cluazone, tipo de esmalte. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

клуазоне. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tabicado. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

emaye işi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Cloisonne

Derivations

Words beginning with "cloisonne": cloisonnes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cloisonne

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-s"

-1 letter: colonies, colonise, eclosion.

-2 letters: cineols, colones, conines, console, coolies, inclose, ionones, loonies.

-3 letters: cineol, clines, clones, colies, colins, colone, coloni, colons, conies, conine, conins, consol, coolie, cosine, eloins, enolic, icones, insole, ionone, lesion, linens, locoes, looies, loosen, nelson, nicols, nonces, oleins, onions, online, oscine, solion.

-4 letters: ceils, cines, cions, cline, clone, clons, close, coils.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: cloisonnes, monoclines.

 

+3 letters: cocounseling, colonialness, concessional, confessional, congelations, conscionable, conversional, inconsolable, nickelodeons, nonelections, nonviolences.

 

+4 letters: cocounselling, confessionals, congressional, constellation, contentiously, mononucleosis, noncellulosic, nondisclosure, oleandomycins.

 

+5 letters: colonialnesses, colorblindness, commonsensible, commonsensical, compensational, condensational, confessionally, conservational, constellations, contemplations, conterminously, conversational, neocolonialism, neocolonialist, noncombustible, noncommercials, noncompliances, nondisclosures, nonelectronics, nonreciprocals, nucleoproteins, reinoculations, triamcinolones, unconscionable, unconsolidated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cloisonne


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6C 6F 69 73 6F 6E 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-..    ---    ..    ...    ---    -.    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100 01101111 01101001 01110011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#111 &#105 &#115 &#111 &#110 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 006F 0069 0073 006F 006E 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

377881758581808071

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Cloisonne"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводбългарски, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kínai, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , chinês, китайский, китаец, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , magyar, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, macarca, macar

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japonés, Japonca

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょяпонски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japonés, Japonca

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoпортугалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugál, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, португальский, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, orosz, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruso, Rusça

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónиспански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, spanyol, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeтурски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, török, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , angol, inglês, английский, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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