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grillwork

[gril-wurk] / ˈgrɪlˌwɜrk /


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The largest structure, a six-story building with dozens of broken windows, is sealed shut with rusting metal grillwork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

At the request of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he promised to save the friezes, as well as some ornate grillwork that was around the building’s main entrance.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019

The filigree of the facade panels was inspired by African-American grillwork in South Carolina and Louisiana, which had West-African roots.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2016

Movies the next summer on Southern Boulevard at the Star, the Boulevard and the Loew’s Spooner Theaters, where ice-cooled air blew from grillwork flanking the screen.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2015

At one end was the door and at the other a window covered with iron grillwork.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer


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