Skip to main content

garniture

By October 15, 2012October 3rd, 2013colors, Design, Layout, Typography-Font
garniture

garniture  \GAHR-nih-cher\  noun

: embellishment, trimming
 
: a set of decorative objects (as vases, urns, or clocks)


 Usage:
The room was authentically furnished right down to the 16th-century garniture decorating the mantel and the wardrobe.
 
“The studio was prolific, producing lamps and clock cases with matching garniture.” — From an article by Jay Moore in the Tampa Tribune (Florida), April 3, 2011

 Origins:

In Middle French, the language from which today’s word was borrowed, “garniture” meant “equipment.” “Garniture” is an alteration of the Old French noun “garnesture,” which is derived from the verb “garnir,” which meant “to warn, equip, or garnish.” In fact, an Anglo-French stem of “garner,” “garniss-,” is the source of the English verb “garnish,” which in its senses of “decorate” and “embellish” shares a similar relationship to “garniture” that the verb “furnish” shares with “furniture.” “Furnish” comes from the Anglo-French “furniss-,” a stem of the verb “furnir” or “fournir,” which also gave rise to the Middle French “fourniture,” the source of the English “furniture.”

Relative of “garniture” is garment

Entry in Webster's Dictionary

Colors

Hex#: f2e8ed
RGB: 242.232.237
CMYK: 2.9.2.0
Pantone: 7436 C

Hex#: 980075
RGB: 152.0.117
CMYK: 31.100.18.1
Pantone: 2415 C

Hex#: 7e326b
RGB: 126.50.107
CMYK: 44.95.29.8
Pantone: 512 C

Hex#: 50003d
RGB: 50.100.44.45
CMYK: 51.99.34.18
Pantone: 7652 C