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treillage

[trey-lij; French tre-yazh]
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noun
  1. latticework; a lattice or trellis.
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Origin of treillage

1690–1700; < French, equivalent to treille vine-arbor, trellis (< Latin trichila; compare Medieval Latin trelia) + -age -age
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Historical Examples

  • One shed shelters an entire semicircle of treillage, pure Louis XV., an exquisite example of a lost art.

    The Ways of Men

    Eliot Gregory

  • M. Blanc describes lace as a “treillage” or network, and says it is made in three ways.

    Needlework As Art

    Marian Alford

  • Breakfasted with Gell in his Boschetto Gellio under a treillage of vines, and surrounded by fruits and flowers.

    The Greville Memoirs

    Charles C. F. Greville

British Dictionary definitions for treillage

treillage

noun
  1. latticework; trellis
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Word Origin

C17: from French, from Old French treille bower, from Latin trichila; see -age
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