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Meanings of fretwork in English
Usage of fretwork in English
1
One of the most beautiful examples of Chippendale's fretwork tea-tables in existence.
2
There, behind the ornamental fretwork that crests this thing, are some boxes.
3
A fifth small group of designs is carved in the form of fretwork.
4
Greek suggestion in Corinthian columns and fretwork and frieze around rotunda.
5
His delicate fretwork tea-tables are a delight, with their fretwork cupboards and carving.
6
There was no mistaking the gold-lined fretwork cut in the thickness of the blade.
7
The towers are of open fretwork, and in excellent preservation.
8
There was a commotion behind the fretwork of the palace.
9
No passion of fretwork, or pinnacle whatever, I said, is in this Pisan pulpit.
10
He was rattling the wire fretwork, impatiently, loudly, when the partition door swung open.
11
The staircases and railings and fretwork are elegant and complex.
12
But if the vocals are tentative, his fretwork makes up for it in eloquence.
13
Scalloped barge-boards and simple fretwork along the porch eaves gave the little house some charm.
14
That had a fretwork of gold at its base.
15
Whilst Easton was asleep, Slyme had been downstairs in the kitchen, making a fretwork frame.
16
Their doorways and deep-set windows were framed with carved fretwork and pillars of ancient design.
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Fretwork through the time
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