basketwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of basketwork
Example Sentences
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On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had discovered the possibility of basketwork and roughly woven textiles of plant fibre, and they were beginning to make a rudely modelled pottery.
From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Once a week each of the girls, since there were seven of them, took a drive with the mother in the old basketwork chaise drawn by a very fat, very lumbering pony.
From The Good Soldier by Ford, Ford Madox
The boy took the glass to a big stone filter covered with basketwork, and filled the measure to the brim.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
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