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Definition of Fretworks
1. fretwork [n] - See also: fretwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fretworks
Literary usage of Fretworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1860)
"... besides a multitude of lesser saints and martyrs to adorn it, with several
intaglios, devices, and fretworks that helped to the beauty thereof. ..."
2. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"On his key-board of imbricated tones there are grays that felicitously sing across
alien strawberry tints, thence modulate into fretworks of dim golden fire ..."
3. Christian Work in Latin America (1917)
"The ruins of Mitla are within their territory, with their wonderful artificial
hills, stone buildings, fretworks in cut stones, columns, and wall paintings. ..."
4. The Last Three Bishops, Appointed by the Crown, for the Anglican Church of by Fennings Taylor (1870)
"jubilant with joy, waving their glad arms around those curious carvings and dainty
fretworks, and not to feel within his nature a root of bitterness with ..."
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