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corrugated

CATEGORY: artifact
DEFINITION: Shaped into alternate ridges and grooves

corrugated fastener

CATEGORY: artifact
DEFINITION: A fastener used in making light-duty miter joints, such as on screens and large picture frames

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flûte de Pan

CATEGORY: ceramics
DEFINITION: A type of suspension lug found on pottery of the Chassey, Cortaillod, and Lagozza cultures. Several vertical clay tubes, of width suitable to take a suspension cord, are set side-by-side on the wall of the vessel. The lug resembles a pan pipe or a section of corrugated cardboard.

millefiore

SYNONYM: millefiori
CATEGORY: artifact
DEFINITION: A type of multicolored glass and the technique which creates it -- literally meaning 'a thousand flowers'. One millefiore method is to take a cane of glass, encase it with several layers of glass of different colors, and then heat the whole and roll it on a corrugated surface, thus compressing the colors at certain points and producing a rod with a flowerlike section. Small slices can be cut off this rod and inlaid into the object to be decorated. Another method is to lay thin glass rods of different colors into a pattern, fuse them together, draw them out, and cut in slices in the same way. The effect is mosaic. The technique was developed by Anglo-Saxon glass- and metal-workers. Some of the finest examples of the millefiore technique can be seen adorning the Sutton Hoo discoveries -- the brilliant reds and blues on the purse lid and shoulder clasps.

Piano Conte

CATEGORY: culture
DEFINITION: Copper Age culture of Lipari, traces of which have also been found on the Italian mainland, perhaps from trade in obsidian with Lipari. This early 3rd millennium BC culture had many fine tools of flint, but copper was still rare. The pottery was distinctive, decorated with close-set grooves, making a corrugated effect.

ripple-flaking

CATEGORY: artifact
DEFINITION: A style of secondary flaking applied to flint and stone tools in which a series of small elongated flakes are removed from the surface of the tool being manufactured in such a way that each new flake scar cuts into the edge of the last one to produce a corrugated or rippled surface.