millefleur
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prettygoodwordmillefleur (MEEL-flur, MEEL-floor) - adj., having a background pattern of stylized flowers and plants.
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Often done against a dark green field. From French, clearly, literally thousand flowers. (The term is also sometimes used for millefiori, a type of decorative glassware, which is the Italian form of the same phrase.)
---L.
As started in tapestries:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
Often done against a dark green field. From French, clearly, literally thousand flowers. (The term is also sometimes used for millefiori, a type of decorative glassware, which is the Italian form of the same phrase.)
---L.
