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English
Noun
trellis-work (countable and uncountable, plural trellis-works)
- Alternative form of trelliswork.
1820, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Farren—Inexpediency of Many Theatres”, in A View of the English Stage, London: Robert Stodart, page 190: the trellis-work of lace and ruffles
1876, Robert Browning, “St. Martin’s Summer”, in Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC, stanza 10, page 113:Love’s corpse lies quiet therefore, / Only Love’s ghost plays truant, / And warns us have in wholesome awe / Durable mansionry; that’s wherefore / I weave but trellis-work, pursuant / —Life, to law.
- 1932, Arthur G. Chater (translator), The Burning Bush (Den brændende busk) (1930) by Sigrid Undset, New York: Knopf, Book One, Chapter Five, p. 96,
- Paul strolled about the garden and watched the stars coming out above the intricate trellis-work of the apple-trees’ branches.
2004, Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “Mughal Expansion in the Deccan, 1570–1605: Contemporary Perspective”, in Jorge Flores, Nuno Vassallo e Silva, editors, Goa and the Great Mughal, London: Scala Publishers, →ISBN, page 41:Small pieces of velvet and brocade were spread around, and between every two lamps and incense-burners were trellis-works of gold or silver.