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Openwork   /ˈoʊpənwˌərk/   Listen
Openwork

noun
1.
Ornamental work (such as embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings.





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"Openwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... fussing with little stitches, will always appeal to my sense of the incongruous. Through a piece of linen he punched holes with a porcupine quill. Then he "buttonhole" stitched the holes, and embroidered patterns between them with fine white thread. The result was an openwork pattern heavily encrusted with beautiful fine embroidery. It was most astounding stuff, such as you would expect from a French convent, perhaps, but never from an African savage. He did a circular piece and a long narrow piece. They took ...
— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White
... Toulouse catering for the automobile tourist. According to report they are all equally good. We chose the Capoul, on the Square Lafayette, and had no cause to regret it. We dined sumptuously, slept in a great ducal sort of an apartment with a hygienique bedstead (a thing of brass openwork and iron springs) tucked away in one corner, full fifteen paces from the door by which one entered—"Un bon kilometre encore," said the garcon de chambre, facetiously, as he showed us up. It promised airiness, at any rate, and if we were awakened at ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield


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