verrière

American  

[ver-ee-air, ve-ryer] / ˌvɛr iˈɛər, vɛˈryɛr /

noun

plural

verrières

1. a French bowl similar to a monteith in form and use.

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Etymology

Origin of verrière

< French: glass stand, frame

Example Sentences

The most striking exterior feature of the new architectural model is a billowing, wavelike wall of translucent glass meant to unify the Rue de Rivoli side both by referring to the original verrière roof and by creating a single visual unit that pulls the façades together.

From The New Yorker

The Iceberg is clad in luminous white panels of fiber-reinforced concrete, while the Verrière is held aloft by a network of steel trusses and wood beams in a bravura feat of architectural acrobatics.

From Architectural Digest

The Fondation’s distinctive shell, which Gehry refers to as the Verrière, consists of a dozen of the monumental glass sail forms, all variously angled and overlapping.

From Architectural Digest

And here again, under the immemorial name of Notre Dame de la belle Verrière, she held an infant in a dress of raisin-purple, a child barely visible in the mixture of dark hues all about it.

From Project Gutenberg

"She was a very notable woman, la belle Verrière, as she was called; and she managed the glass factory for many years after her husband's death, and made lots of money for her two daughters."

From Project Gutenberg