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- noun Alternative spelling of
openwork .
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Examples
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Brown slippers peeped out as she crossed the compound, and he once caught a glimpse to the ankle of brown open-work stockings.
Chapter 18 2010
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Lucile went over to the mirror and picked up, from among the trinkets beneath, a tiny open-work miniature of Frona.
CHAPTER 19 2010
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In true Victorian-era design, your ring is created by master artisans with an open-work gallery and a finely polished edge that surrounds the brilliant faceted stones.
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There are lecture halls, a library, bike storage, open-work areas and a kitchen.
Latest City Incubator Opens in Flatiron Area Joseph De Avila 2011
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Jonathan is doing something pretentious as usual, an "open-work filigree" that Heidi likens to a curtain, which leads Jon to redo the dress not once but twice, resulting in what looks like a sloppy toga the color of dishwater with a red band around the back like a baboon's ass.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 11 Recap: Alba-tross Una LaMarche 2010
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Jonathan is doing something pretentious as usual, an "open-work filigree" that Heidi likens to a curtain, which leads Jon to redo the dress not once but twice, resulting in what looks like a sloppy toga the color of dishwater with a red band around the back like a baboon's ass.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 11 Recap: Alba-tross Una LaMarche 2010
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We found them lightweight and the open-work adds a nice design touch.
Making Takeout Green 2008
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Her dress was lifted by her movements as she walked, giving glimpses higher than the shoes of delicately moulded outlines beneath open-work silk stockings.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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The dining-room was entirely sheathed in Northern woods carved and cut in open-work like the beautiful Russian chalets.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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There was a great pile of candles lying down on the floor near me, which a very old man in a rusty black gown with an open-work tippet, like
Pictures from Italy 2007
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