This so-called verre églomisé, which had been handed down from antiquity and was used in the Middle Ages, was brought to high perfection at the Renaissance.
Crystal reliquary mounted in enamelled gold and set with a plaque of verre églomisé.
Verre églomisé appears to take its name from one Glomy, a French craftsman of the eighteenth century, who produced a special black and gold varnish which he applied to the back of glass.
Life is a petit verre of a very peculiar kind of spirit.
After a long discussion as to whether tumbler was masculine or feminine, and as to whether "Ai-je laisse un verre ici?
Gentlemen, both your good healths and professional success also:" here I swallowed a petit verre of brandy; thinking all the while there were worse things than the practice of physic.
Who that hath an hede ofverre Fro caste of stones war hym in the werre.
During the two preceding centuries his development of verre double (or glass in double layers) has been yielding a constantly increasing variety of hues in the costumes of his personages, backgrounds, etc.
The gradual development of the verre double (or double sheets of glass) placed a greater variety of tints at the disposal of the artist, and he eagerly took advantage of his enriched palette.
Other variants in French are: Entre la bouche et le verre Le vin souvent tombe à terre.
Ce verre de bière m’a coupé les jambes = My legs feel shaky after that glass of beer.
Un verre de vin avise bien un homme = A glass of wine puts wit into a man.
Eagerly the Renaissance masters seized on the new invention of verre double, which allowed them a fuller palate.
Again "Un Petit Verre de Clicquot" was played, and the children skipped about, beating time with their feet.
While they were taking off their fur coats and their felt boots below, "Un Petit Verre de Clicquot" was being played upon the piano overhead, and they could hear the children beating time with their feet.
Dukes of Anjou, Berry, and Burgundy, where there is any mention of vessels of glass, it is almost without exception of verre de Damas or of verre a la facon de Damas that we hear.
Even Boileau, late in the seventeenth century, talks of a man holding 'un verre de vin qui rit dans la fougere.
It was technically the victory of the carefully prepared cristallo over the old mediaeval verrede fougere or wald-glas.
For this old English glass, like that of France, was essentially a verre a fougere,[229] made in districts remote from towns.
In England, where the use of the word glass in this sense probably came in somewhat later, we find more than once in inventories of the fourteenth century the quaint combination, 'un verre de glass.
It is indeed merely a debased variety of what used to be known in France as verre eglomise; the term fixe peint has also been used for work of this kind.
A few years later the tables were turned, for now the De Colnet firm was fain to engage an Englishman to produce 'verre a l'Angleterre.
It was used in opposition to the 'green glass' or verrede fougere, in the preparation of which sand was used.
Footnote 38: There is among the Roman glass in the museum at Cologne a shallow bowl about a foot in diameter, painted on the back, as in the later verre eglomise, with a female head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
