chainwork

American  

[cheyn-wurk] / ˈtʃeɪnˌwɜrk /

noun

1. any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.

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Etymology

Origin of chainwork

First recorded in 1545–55; chain + work

Example Sentences

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chainwork

They have once had an arcade of low wide arches traced on their surface, the spandrils filled with leafage, and archivolts enriched with studded chainwork and with crosses in their centres.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin

Some are anklets and armlets, and consist merely of plain gold rings, both solid and hollow, bordered with plaited chainwork in imitation of filigree.

From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by G. (Gaston) Maspero

From a men-bag made of brazen chainwork he drew out a set of men adorned with flashing jewels, and he set them in array.

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid

The back part is composed of an intricate kind of chainwork, which bends when the book is opened, and the sides are embossed with a variety of devices.

From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon

At its end the knight is often locked in plates from head to foot, no chainwork showing save the camail edge under the helm and the fringe of the mail skirt or hawberk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various