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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

And farther east on 50th Street the wonderful grillwork covering the fire escapes was Stone’s idea.

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2020

And the grillwork, he explained, had simply disappeared.

From The New Yorker Jul. 3, 2018

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

A guard rises to his post beyond an iron grillwork gate.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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