gadroon means any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
gadroon is pronounced /ɡəˈdɹuːn/.
noun
- Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.“Owing possibly to some flaw in his mental make-up, Uncle Tom has been collecting old silver since I was so high […]. I knew all about that collection of his, not only because I had had to listen to him for hours on the subject of sconces, foliation, ribbon wreaths in high relief and gadroon borders, but because I had what you might call a personal interest in it, once having stolen an eighteenth-c”
- A godroon.