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Meanings of openwork in inglês

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ажур
espanhol
calado
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Artistic technique that produces decoration by creating holes or gaps through solid material.

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        ажур
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        Usage of openwork in inglês
        1
        The result was an openwork pattern heavily encrusted with beautiful fine embroidery.
        The Land of Footprints
        2
        There is an openwork balustrade which surrounds the platform of the bell tower.
        Notre-Dame de Paris
        3
        To these beams are affixed the cross pieces that form the openwork sides.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
        4
        Most-andthese were the blackest-worelong white robes and fine openwork skull caps.
        African Camp Fires
        5
        Open street cars, open skies, and openwork shirt waists had arrived.
        Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
        6
        For the saint, we could use neither the close embroidery nor the lace openwork.
        The Dream
        7
        Some openwork minarets dominate them-whitespots above the prevailing dullness.
        Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
        8
        Their higher tiers formed an openwork of girders through which lifts and staircases ascended.
        The sleeper awakes
        9
        Miss Eunice, I wish you'd teach her that pretty openwork stitch you do so handy.
        A Little Girl in Old Salem
        10
        Through the openwork beams of the ceiling I saw the slanting light of very late afternoon.
        The Book of Skulls
        11
        She was quite shaking with the excitement, and pulled at her openwork mitts with smiling expectancy.
        Patsy
        12
        Above this frieze, carved in openwork with extreme delicacy, was a marble basket, filled with red camellias.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 07
        13
        When this striped shell bar is finished, the blue threads are again united for the openwork figure.
        Encyclopedia of Needlework
        14
        This portrait of a Salem minister in childhood is in jacket and trousers, with openwork collar and ruffles.
        Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
        15
        Like our churches, it is sustained and protected by the arcades of its thin, light, transparent, openwork wings.
        Cinq Mars — Volume 5
        16
        No longer in detached flakes, but as though an openwork white cloth were continuously unrolled before one's eyes.
        Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian
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        espanhol
        calado
        Openwork through the time