variants
or less commonly cire
1
: a highly glazed finish for fabrics usually achieved by applying wax to the fabric
2
: a fabric or garment with a ciré finish
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The works showed mastery of the cire perdue technique, used by Renaissance sculptors to cast molten metal using waxed molds.
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Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
This form of cire perdue allowed him to create many of his elaborated molds of spiraling 18-carat gold (mixed to his own specifications to a warm, but not over-warm, tone) in one movement, before putting them in cold water to set.
—Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 1 June 2018
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Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
This form of cire perdue allowed him to create many of his elaborated molds of spiraling 18-carat gold (mixed to his own specifications to a warm, but not over-warm, tone) in one movement, before putting them in cold water to set.
—Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 1 June 2018
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“Ciré.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cir%C3%A9. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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ciré
noun
ci·ré
sə-ˈrā 
: a shiny fabric that looks wet
Etymology
French, literally, "waxed"
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