Definitions for millefiori

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millefiori mil·le·fi·o·ri

Spelling: [mil-uh-fee-awr-ee, -ohr-ee]

IPA: /ˌmɪl ə fiˈɔr i, -ˈoʊr i/

Millefiori is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in millefiori (efiiillmor).

Definitions for millefiori

noun

1. 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.

Origin of millefiori

1840-50; Italian, equivalent to mille thousand (Latin) + fiori, plural of fiore Latin flōri- (stem of flōs) flower

Examples for millefiori

millefiori or chevron bead of yellow and black glass, almost certainly Venetian.

The central pendant, also circular, is ornamented with a section from a rod of Roman millefiori glass set in gold.