Painted, enamelled, or lacquered tin plate used to make decorative domestic objects.
as modifier‘colourfully painted tole accessories’
‘Many of our other lawn and garden projects are also popular with tole painters, including our planter collection that consists of a garden wheelbarrow, plump little pig, and dairy cow planter.’
‘The wall design unfolded like a connect-the-dots drawing; it started with the tole tray and blue-and-white platter, then built up and out from there until a pleasing pattern developed.’
Origin
1940s French tôle, ‘sheet iron’, from dialect taule ‘table’, from Latin tabula ‘flat board’.
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