vitraux
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A viewing device was clicking off a series of transparencies, showing vitraux and mosaics by the Luxembourg artist Francois Gillen.[…]Some of his abstract vitraux are truly beautiful.[…]Thus a tall blue and red window for a church in Wintrage, a glorious yellow vitrail for the church of Freistroff on the Moselle."
- "SAVE THE VITRAUX[…]over the first three windows cleaned at Chartres (which brightened the naturally aged colors around the celebrated blues, making them less striking) that it looked for a while as if the remaining vitraux would be left to darken further and die."
- "[…]glass of the required colour originated, from which the vitraux[…]"
- "Tiffany and Company of New York created vitraux for shop windows and lamp designs for homes.[…]Gomide experimented in these areas, making frescoes, vitraux, and watercolors.[…]He designed all of a house’s components: furniture (fig. 14), paintings (fig. 15), reliefs in the form of wall panels, curtains, doors, objects, lighting, windows, shelves, vitraux, and frescoes;[…]"
- "The glass was blown especially at the St. Gobain Works in France, employing the ancient techniques used in the vitraux of Chartres and Notre Dame in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The vitrail contains dozens of colors and shades."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: vitraux