frostwork
Americannoun
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the patterns made by frost on glass, metal, etc
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similar artificial ornamentation
Etymology
Origin of frostwork
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It was the very perfection of Gothic carving, and resembled frostwork in its lightness.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
For a good many years we have been tied to town in winter by fetters as fine as frostwork filigree, which we could not break without destroying a whole world of endearment.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
Such a Brother, with such a Life opening around him, like a blooming garden where he was to labor and gather, all vanished suddenly like frostwork, and hidden from your eye!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
The little frostwork which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt like snow under sunbeams.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
The small panes of his window were so obscured by frostwork that he did not attempt to look through the glass, but opened his door.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
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