trelliswork

[ trel-is-wurk ]

noun

1. latticework.

trelliswork

/ ˈtrɛlɪsˌwɜːk /

noun

1. 1. work or patterns of trellis; latticework
   2. ( as modifier )

      a trelliswork fence

Word History and Origins

Origin of trelliswork¹

First recorded in 1705–15; trellis + work

Example Sentences

Four fluted columns ran up to the second-story windows, with vines trained on trelliswork in between.

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It was firmly secured by bands of wrought iron, riveted, and forming a kind of open trelliswork over the whole.

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There are some twenty little houses of trelliswork at this place.

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He made a trelliswork behind which he attacked his foes, the string players.

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Then again they cross one another from tree to tree and form a trelliswork that at times is next to impassable.

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