basketwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of basketwork
Example Sentences
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The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery.
From Time Magazine Archive
On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes they manufacture head-pieces, by stretching the cloth over a basketwork frame, to represent the heads of monkeys and other animals.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
He therefore began to model rudely thin globular bowls with his own hands, dispensing with the aid of thongs or basketwork.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant
In Fricktal a similar frame of basketwork is called the Whitsuntide Basket.
From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir
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