champlevé

Meanings

Adjective

• Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enamelled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are then fired.

Noun

• A piece of enamel of this kind.
• The process of making enamel of this kind.

Origin

• From French champlevé ("engraved").