treillage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of treillage
1690–1700; < French, equivalent to treille vine-arbor, trellis (< Latin trichila; compare Medieval Latin trelia ) + -age -age
Example Sentences
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The whimsical space, which opened in early February, has sea foam green walls and handmade wooden treillage.
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024
One shed shelters an entire semicircle of treillage, pure Louis XV., an exquisite example of a lost art.
From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot
Round it are courts of treillage, that serve for nothing, and behind it a canal, very like a horsepond, on which there are fireworks and justs.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
Breakfasted with Gell in his Boschetto Gellio under a treillage of vines, and surrounded by fruits and flowers.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry
I have had an assembly and the rheumatism-and am buying a house-and it rains-and I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
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