Definition of Vargueno. Meaning of Vargueno. Synonyms of Vargueno

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Definition of Vargueno

Vargueno
Vargueno Var*gue"no (v[aum]r*g[=a]"n[=o]), n. [Said to be fr. Vargas, name of a village in Spain.] (Art) A decorative cabinet, of a form originating in Spain, the body being rectangular and supported on legs or an ornamental framework and the front opening downwards on hinges to serve as a writing desk.

Meaning of Vargueno from wikipedia

- In cabinetry, the bargueño (or vargueño, both pronounced [baɾˈɣeɲo]; meaning "from Bargas") is a form of portable desk, made up of two chests, the bottom...
- a direct morphological descendant. In a sense the Spanish Bargueño (or Vargueño) desk is a distant cousin of the two piece version, since the Bargueño...
- these medieval and renaissance forms: the rather large Bargueño desk or Vargueno, a chest desk from 16th-century Spain, and the relatively small Bible box...
- by Walt Disney, £3,000 – 19th century ornate Moorish Spanish Bargueño/Vargueño cabinet in Rosewood £3,000 – bronze dog statue by George Fox, 1903, value...
- hallmarked London 1818, £10,000 – 17th century desk, in the Bargueño/Vargueño style (prototype of an English Escritoire), stand decorated with ironwork...