favrile means an iridescent form of Tiffany glass. It carries an Arena rating of 1254, earned across 84 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, favrile ranks #1,626 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words, #1,958 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #4,441 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #5,032 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words.
Why “favrile” is a great word
FAVRILE — [Noun] A proprietary, iridescent art glass, hand-blown and characterized by its lustrous, organic forms. The name is an arbitrary formation based on the Old English or Latin word 'fabrile', meaning 'hand-wrought' or 'handcrafted'; coined and patented by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1894. Unlike "stained glass," which denotes colored panes assembled into pictorial windows, or "iridescent glass," which describes any shimmering surface effect, Favrile is the trademarked artifact of a singular artistic vision. It is the captured sheen of a dragonfly’s wing, the deep, oceanic glow of a vase held to light, and the opaline fire of a lampshade dissolving dusk—the fleeting beauty of nature made permanent by the breath and hand of a craftsman.
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- An iridescent form of Tiffany glass.
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