pokerwork
Britishnoun
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the art of decorating wood or leather by burning a design with a heated metal point; pyrography
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artefacts decorated in this way
Example Sentences
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Watercolour, the subject of a new show at , is a great medium, but hey – compared to pokerwork or macramé, what isn't?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2011
The French dug-outs possessed one unique quality; they were decorated as only a Frenchman could decorate them, with most wonderful designs in pokerwork, which were always objects of the greatest interest to our visitors.
From The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by Weetman, W. C. C.
If you cannot reply in the affirmative to two of these queries, then take up pokerwork, or oratory, or fiction, or nursing, but leave journalism alone.
From Journalism for Women A Practical Guide by Bennett, Arnold
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