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pointillé
[ French pwan-tee-yey ]
adjective
- (of book covers) decorated with a tooled pattern of dots.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pointillé1
1900–05; < French, past participle of pointiller to dot, point
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Example Sentences
Of this style, called pointillé, we give a specimen from the collection of M. Dutuit.
From Project Gutenberg
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