strapwork
or strap-work
a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
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How to use strapwork in a sentence
A yet more usual plan with us was to make the strapwork in colour, as at Salisbury.
Windows, A Book About Stained & Painted Glass | Lewis F. DayIt came in very conveniently in the French windows, in which the design consisted largely of white strapwork.
Windows, A Book About Stained & Painted Glass | Lewis F. DayJust a little patch of strapwork in the middle of the waste.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsThe jewel is bordered by strapwork à jour of opaque blue and white enamel set with table diamonds and rubies.
Jewellery | H. Clifford Smith,The patterns, reserved in white upon a black ground, are composed of curves of flat and broken strapwork.
Jewellery | H. Clifford Smith,
British Dictionary definitions for strap work
architect decorative work resembling interlacing straps
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