English Explanatory Dictionary

reticello

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A decorative glassblowing technique involving the merging of two cane bubbles (one inside the other) where the straight canes were twisted in opposite directions, resulting in a net-like pattern.
  2. Alternative form of reticella (“old lace-like fabric”).

Word forms

reticello reticelli

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian reticello, a masculine diminutive of rete (“net”).

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