gadroon

English edit

Design for a gadrooned vase, a. 1725

From French godron, from Middle French goderon, from a form of godet (“vase with wavy edges”) + -(e)ron, from Dutch kodde (“piece of cylindrical wood”). Also probably related to goder (“to pucker”).

gadroon (plural gadroons)

Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
  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-century cow-creamer for him.
(architecture) A godroon.

decorative curves

godroon — see godroon