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trelliswork

[ trel-is-wurk ]

trelliswork

/ ˈtrɛlɪsˌwɜːk /

noun

    1. work or patterns of trellis; latticework
    2. ( as modifier )

      a trelliswork fence

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of trelliswork1

First recorded in 1705–15; trellis + work
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Example Sentences

Four fluted columns ran up to the second-story windows, with vines trained on trelliswork in between.

It was firmly secured by bands of wrought iron, riveted, and forming a kind of open trelliswork over the whole.

There are some twenty little houses of trelliswork at this place.

He made a trelliswork behind which he attacked his foes, the string players.

Then again they cross one another from tree to tree and form a trelliswork that at times is next to impassable.

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