[
UK
/fɹˈɛtwɜːk/
]
NOUN
- framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal
How To Use fretwork In A Sentence
- British influence, with wooden jalousies, wide porches, and patterned railings and fretwork, dominated urban architecture in the colonial period.
- The distinctive open fretwork pediment of the mahogany case is associated with clocks made in or near Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the Federal period.
- When darkness descended we hurriedly cleared the kitchen table in order to commence our fretwork.
- Recent shows at Ronnie Scott's saw blistering fretwork augmented by some snazzy digital sounds.
- Much of the ceiling is fretwork, and fresco par-excellence, in gilded gold.
- Joiners made fretwork by cutting away part of the wood to form a regular pattern.
- Close-set buildings, laundry lines, slant light, patches of weeds, a few would-be gardens and bare ailanthus trees and the fire escapes that fixed fretwork patterns of light and shade on the walls and paved surfaces. Underworld
- Or is it like lacy fretwork - tracery bracket & buzz saw Many Morning
- Brand New, DaisyFive kids from Long Island have a many appropriate Modest Mouse manuscript since The Lonesome Crowded West, a sawing, slurring, snarling thing, full of sufficient rootless fretwork as good as perplexed melodies to give Isaac Brock pause. Archive 2009-12-01
- The rest of the furniture included a commode, two small pairs of open china cabinets, eight fretwork armchairs, four side chairs, and a pier glass.