Fretwork

  • 1Fretwork — Datos generales Origen Reino Unido Información artística …

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  • 2Fretwork — Fret work, n. [6th fret + work.] Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like. [1913 Webster] Banqueting on the …

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  • 3fretwork — also fret work, c.1600, from FRET (Cf. fret) (n.) + WORK (Cf. work) …

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  • 4fretwork — ► NOUN ▪ ornamental design done with a fretsaw …

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  • 5fretwork — [fret′wʉrk΄] n. work ornamented with frets; decorative carving or openwork, as of interlacing lines …

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  • 6Fretwork — for stringed instrument manufacturing see Luthier. Fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, jigsaw or scroll saw. Most fretwork patterns are geometric in… …

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  • 7fretwork — /fret werrk /, n. 1. ornamental work consisting of interlacing parts, esp. work in which the design is formed by perforation. 2. any pattern of dark and light, such as that of perforated fretwork. [1595 1605; FRET2 + WORK] * * * …

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  • 8fretwork — The extra work that goes into producing a news story, designed to make it that bit more worrying. Every writer who got hold of the story added a little fretwork of her own …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 9fretwork — The extra work that goes into producing a news story, designed to make it that bit more worrying. Every writer who got hold of the story added a little fretwork of her own …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 10fretwork — [[t]fre̱twɜː(r)k[/t]] N UNCOUNT: oft N n Fretwork is wood or metal that has been decorated by cutting bits of it out to make a pattern …

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