Crossword-Solution: FRETWORK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fretwork | n. | Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “FRETWORK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CARVED work in decorative patterns or intersecting liens (archit.) | 1 answer |
| Ornamental three-dimensional pattern | 1 answer |
| Pattern of dark and light | 1 answer |
| Decorative carvings in wood/metal | 1 answer |
| ADORN ceiling with carved or embossed work | 2 answers |
| ADORN with carved work | 2 answers |
| ADORN with embossed work | 2 answers |
| Adornment | 59 answers |
| Network | 80 answers |
| DECORATION ___ | 97 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with FRETWORK (5)
But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery--beautiful milk-white fretwork, set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli, and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery.
With her through the Lyonesse I rode, Till the woods with the noontide fervour glow'd, And there for a space we halted, Where the intertwining branches made Cool carpets of olive-tinted shade, And the floors with fretwork of flame inlaid From leafy lattices vaulted.
There was no light in it but that of the moon streaming through the windows, which were by no means large, and were glazed with white fretwork, with here and there a little figure in very deep rich colours.
Under my window a colony of cleome made a soft web of bloom that drew me every morning for a long still time; and one day I discovered that I was looking into a rare fretwork of fawn and straw colored twigs from which both bloom and leaf had gone, and I could not say if it had been for a matter of weeks or days.
This in itself was sufficiently curious, but what was still more so was that all the edges of the hollow spaces cut through the substance of the blade were most beautifully inlaid with gold, which was in some way that I cannot understand welded on to the steel.[5] [5] Since I saw the above I have examined hundreds of these swords, but have never been able to discover how the gold plates were inlaid in the fretwork.
Quotes with FRETWORK (1)
Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted[9] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and then at last the great, stormy, faraway outside world. But sleep did not come. Oh, no! Nothing new came at all except that particularly wretched, itching type of insomnia which seems to rip away from one's body the whole kind, protecting skin and expose all the raw, ticklish fretwork of nerves to the mercy of a gritty blanket or a wrin…
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2007).