fretwork

Synonyms for fretwork

noun mesh, trellis

noun. particular type of embellishment

noun. ornamental art

noun. mesh, trellis

also fret-work, c.1600, from fret (n.) + work (n.).

No. 12, fretwork and carpentry class; games; letter writing.

No passion of fretwork, or pinnacle whatever, I said, is in this Pisan pulpit.

Soon even this fretwork was gone, and there was no sign of it to be seen.

Mother is going to give me a set of fretwork tools so that I can put fancy tops to my frames, etc.

Chippendale snatched his fretwork in his brackets and the angles of his chairs from the Chinese worker in ebony.

I turned, and scarlet through the festoons of gleaming white glowed the fretwork of a pagoda.

The Salak's fretwork crater stood out entirely clear—his form a purple background to the picture gradually unfolding itself.

It contained a fretwork basket, stained brown and still rather sticky with varnish.

They positively ran wild on "Chinese taste," their fretwork and combination of Chinese and Gothic being perfectly extravagant.

Chippendale, in his book, gives very elaborate directions for preparing the wood from which this fretwork carving was to be made.