fancywork
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of fancywork
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How well the role’s vocal fancywork will suit her voice in the big house remains to be seen, but one way or the other, she instantly becomes a part of Met history.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2011
But does she ever indulge in coloratura fancywork, complete with interpolated high C’s and D’s and all manner of elaborate embellishments.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2011
Since he tends strictly to his legal knitting and engages in none of the New Deal's economic fancywork, his sentiments were merely sentiments.
From Time Magazine Archive
In London the iron railings in front of the American Embassy are getting a fresh coat of paint and gold trimmings, fancywork denied even to Buckingham Palace since 1939.
From Time Magazine Archive
There she spent most of her time, doing fancywork or writing letters to sympathizing German friends in St. Paul, surrounded by keepsakes and photographs of the burly Oscar Andersen.
From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather
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