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Meanings of
openwork
in inglês
russo
ажур
espanhol
calado
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Artistic technique that produces decoration by creating holes or gaps through solid material.
ajour
Related terms
artistic technique
russo
ажур
Usage of
openwork
in inglês
1
The result was an
openwork
pattern heavily encrusted with beautiful fine embroidery.
2
There is an
openwork
balustrade which surrounds the platform of the bell tower.
3
To these beams are affixed the cross pieces that form the
openwork
sides.
4
Most-andthese were the blackest-worelong white robes and fine
openwork
skull caps.
5
Open street cars, open skies, and
openwork
shirt waists had arrived.
6
For the saint, we could use neither the close embroidery nor the lace
openwork
.
7
Some
openwork
minarets dominate them-whitespots above the prevailing dullness.
8
Their higher tiers formed an
openwork
of girders through which lifts and staircases ascended.
9
Miss Eunice, I wish you'd teach her that pretty
openwork
stitch you do so handy.
10
Through the
openwork
beams of the ceiling I saw the slanting light of very late afternoon.
11
She was quite shaking with the excitement, and pulled at her
openwork
mitts with smiling expectancy.
12
Above this frieze, carved in
openwork
with extreme delicacy, was a marble basket, filled with red camellias.
13
When this striped shell bar is finished, the blue threads are again united for the
openwork
figure.
14
This portrait of a Salem minister in childhood is in jacket and trousers, with
openwork
collar and ruffles.
15
Like our churches, it is sustained and protected by the arcades of its thin, light, transparent,
openwork
wings.
16
No longer in detached flakes, but as though an
openwork
white cloth were continuously unrolled before one's eyes.
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openwork
Adjective
Frequent collocations
openwork silk
openwork balustrade
openwork figure
openwork pattern
pretty openwork
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Translations for
openwork
russo
ажур
espanhol
calado
Openwork
through the time