rouˈletting, vbl. n.
[f. as prec.]
a. Perforating by means of a roulette. b. Decorating pottery, etc., with dotted lines by means of a cogged wheel or comb; ornamentation produced in this way.
| 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 604 Rouletting is done with a tool very much like those sold on the streets..to cut glass. 1937 Oxoniensia II. 19 It contained a great quantity of Roman pottery, mostly early grey ware jars but including part of a butt-beaker in fine buff ware with two zones of rouletting, and a bit of a buff amphora handle. 1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 148 Coins and ingots were hammered into sheets and decorated by stamping and rouletting. 1979 Archaeology July–Aug. 31/1 The carinated bowls were stamped with palmettes inside concentric spirals of rouletting, a technique of producing hatch lines around the central design. |