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noun, masculine

craquelé

/kʁa.kle/

noun, masculine/kʁa.kle/plural: craquelés

crackle (style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks)

Le dîner était médiocre et le prince avait raison de s’excuser. Le service en porcelaine blanche commune, l’argenterie bourgeoise, usée et grossière. Au milieu de la table, il y avait un assez beau vase en craquelé, monté en cuivre doré du mauvais goût Louis XVI.The dinner was a very ordinary one, and the Prince did well to excuse himself. The service was of common white china and the silverware bourgeois, worn, and gross. In the middle of the table was a rather fine vase of craquelé, ornamented with ormolu in the bad taste of the time of Louis XVI.