repousse in a sentence

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1. A craftsman positions a sheet of aluminum over the die and hammers it into the intricate incisions, creating a repousse ( raised ) design.
2. What about " Repousse " ? " Francis 1st " is an old and well-known pattern, but so are very many others.
3. Especially prevalent is a chrysanthemum pattern, rendered in soft graphite or teased out in raised dots of paint that accumulate into repousse-like filigrees.
4. Sometimes the bowl and lid of the thurible are decorated with crosses or icons in repousse, and may even be decorated with semi-precious stones.
5. Once the repousse is done-the design raised, the piece is inverted, and the voids are filled with warm pitch to help maintain its shape.
6. He was also honoured with the Serbian Orthodox Church's Golden Cross, whose insignia of a large pectoral cross in repousse gold he later often wore.
7. Even the boudoir, where a woman would receive guests in the morning, featured grand silver toilet services with ewers for water, repousse basins and glove trays.
8. Bronze repousse bands decorated the wooden gates of major buildings, but were mostly looted at the fall of the empire; the Balawat Gates are the principal survivors.
9. Other tools used include the . . . ring mandrel, ring sizer, chasing tools, stone-setting tools, repousse tools . . . centrifugal caster.
10. The technique is seen at its height in four splendid repousse disks dating from the 14th or the 15th century, found in elite Chimu burials on the northern coast.