noun
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decorative geometrical carving or openwork
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any similar pattern of light and dark
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ornamental work of three-dimensional frets
Etymology
Origin of fretwork
Example Sentences
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US guitarist Carol Kaye, whose fretwork can be heard on classic tracks like You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and the theme to Mission: Impossible, receives the same honour.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023
Years later they married, and Louise displayed the cherished card, tucked into the fretwork of a bedroom dresser, for decades to come.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Along the way War has mastered lyric writing, a tool now as keen as her fretwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
Nhamo looked for a way into the grassland so she could peer more closely into the windows, which were open but covered by a fretwork of iron.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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