basketwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of basketwork
Example Sentences
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The ochers and sharp abstractions of the Southwest desert dominate the region's basketwork and pottery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 interstices—space however having been left for a door—were filled up with willow or hazel saplings in the form of basketwork.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various
He therefore began to model rudely thin globular bowls with his own hands, dispensing with the aid of thongs or basketwork.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant
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)
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