millefiori

American  

[mil-uh-fee-awr-ee, -ohr-ee] / ˌmɪl ə fiˈɔr i, -ˈoʊr i /

Or millefiore

noun

1. decorative glass made by fusing multicolored glass canes together, cutting them crosswise, joining them into new groups, embedding the groups in transparent glass, and blowing the resultant mass into a desired shape.

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millefiori British  

/ ˌmɪlɪˈfjɔːrɪ /

noun

1. 1. decorative glassware in which coloured glass rods are fused and cut to create flower patterns: an ancient technique revived in Venice in the sixteenth century and in France and England in the nineteenth century

   2. ( as modifier )

      a millefiori paperweight

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Etymology

Origin of millefiori

1840–50; < Italian, equivalent to mille thousand (< Latin ) + fiori, plural of fiore < Latin flōri- (stem of flōs ) flower