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Definition of Godroons
1. godroon [n] - See also: godroon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Godroons
Literary usage of Godroons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hispano-Moresque Pottery in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America by Edwin Atlee Barber (1915)
"The godroons are decorated successively with the dot-and-stalk, wheel, and net
diapers. Similar design outside. Shield outlined with blue, enclosing three ..."
2. Italian Ceramic Art: Figure Design and Other Forms of Ornamantation in XVth by Henry Wallis (1905)
"Ornamentation: godroons painted in pale golden lustre. Reverse, concentric circles
and edges of godroons lined in lustre. Inscribed "PERSEVERANZA" D. 236 mm ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The godroons radiate from the vertical support of the vase and rise half-way up
the bowl. GODWIN, FRANCIS (1562-1633), English divine, son of Thomas Godwin, ..."
4. History of Art in Persia by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1892)
"ornament is reminiscent of Assyria and of brick construction ; but in the mouldings
which appear around the merlons, as well as the godroons of the main ..."
5. How to Collect Continental China by C. H. Wylde (1907)
"design, but without the wicker-work, was called rocaille; a third decoration,
with spiral ribs on the rim instead of godroons, was designated a fines cotes; ..."
6. A Chippendale Romance by Eben Howard Gay (1915)
"WINE COOLER Plain body, the lower half formed of an encircling band of upright
godroons, each decorated with a spray. The foot is splayed and rests on a ..."
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