metalwork
Americannoun
noun
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the craft of working in metal
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work in metal or articles made from metal
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The human body is everywhere in painting, sculpture, tapestries and photography, implicit in the metalwork of jewelry and armor.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
The group includes his niece, artist Hannah Peck, 27; woodworker and designer Jessie Blackman, 27; Ethan Casselbery, 28, who has experience in sculpture fabrication and metalwork joinery; and Jordan Kennedy, 36.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Images on social media showed one of its supporting stone piers was leaning at an angle and part of the metalwork had twisted and fallen into the river.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
For those unfamiliar, castlecore is a sort of Romantic medievalism marked by sumptuous wealth—think windswept fens, lots of metalwork, richly colored fabrics, and stone keeps haunted by desperate lovers.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025
Alex felt the metalwork collapsing all around him.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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