frostwork
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Yellow with age it was, and delicate as a spider's web, with frostwork of yellowed broidery strewn quaintly on its ancient form, and a touch of real lace.
From The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill
Now, being irrevocably awake, you peep through the half-drawn window-curtain, and observe that the glass is ornamented with fanciful devices in frostwork, and that each pane presents something like a frozen dream.
From The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
As frostwork disappears in the sunshine, so his brave resolutions vanished when her arm reached across his shoulder, and the ribbon that tied her beads fluttered against his cheek.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
A red rash, with the pattern of frostwork on a Minnesota windowpane in January, was across his lean, handsome face.
From The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun
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