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reflet

[ ruh-fley ]

noun

  1. an effect of brilliance or luster due to the reflection of light on a surface, especially of pottery; iridescence.


reflet

/ °ùəˈ´Ú±ô±ðɪ /

noun

  1. an iridescent glow or lustre, as on ceramic ware
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of reflet1

1860–65; < French, earlier °ù±ð´Ú±ôè²õ < Italian riflesso reflection; reflex
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of reflet1

C19: from French: a reflection, from Italian riflesso , from Latin reflexus , from reflectere to reflect
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Red Reflet Ranch, a 27,000-acre luxury ranch at the base of Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains, is offering 25 percent off its all-inclusive rates through May.

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That less can sometimes be more was brought home by the London premiere of one of its companion pieces, Reflet d'un Temps Disparu, by Qigang Chen, Shanghai-born, now resident in Paris and a pupil of Messiaen.

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It is unaccountable, but it is certain that the secret of producing the higher types of beauty in various arts, especially the Keramic, died out more than one hundred and fifty years ago, and that there are no circumstances of that date to account for its decease, except that it is recorded that when the Afghan conqueror Mahmoud destroyed Isfahan he massacred the designers of reflêt tiles and other Keramic beauties, because they had created works which gave great umbrage to the Sunni sect to which he belonged.

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At Le Reflet, a cafe-bar at the heart of Paris's Left Bank and a stone's throw from the Sorbonne, successive generations of students have witnessed recurrent new dawns of the French left, many of them false.

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Reflet, re-flÄ′, n. iridescent glaze, as on pottery: ware possessing this property.

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