noun
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decorative geometrical carving or openwork
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any similar pattern of light and dark
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ornamental work of three-dimensional frets
Etymology
Origin of fretwork
Example Sentences
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Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023
Years later they married, and Louise displayed the cherished card, tucked into the fretwork of a bedroom dresser, for decades to come.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023
And Wolfgang Van Halen delivered flawless renditions of his father's fretwork on covers of pop-metal classics Panama and Hot For Teacher.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2022
I can’t remember what this one is called but it’s the one with pounding drums, heavy brass, a bit of guitar fretwork and is used often for boxing montages.
From The Guardian • May 9, 2021
Gogol is accustomed to the scenery, yet he still stares, at the short, dark men pulling rickshaws and the crumbling buildings side by side with fretwork balconies, hammers and sickles painted on their facades.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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