PREFERRED TERM
Grisaille
DEFINITION
- n. From the French "grisaille". It is a French dress fabric with a black and white colours, that seem grey. It is made from a black and white printed warp and coarse worsted filling.
BROADER CONCEPT
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Grisaille (tissu)
French
Grisaglia
Italian
Grisalla
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/252
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