Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Material formed into grilles or a grille.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun netting made of wires.
- noun a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The mesh of metal wire or bars which makes up a decorative metal
grating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mesh netting made of wires
- noun a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
Etymologies
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Examples
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Images of Christ’s life are executed as variations on traditional Chinese paper cutouts, and the surrounding grillwork is based on Qing Dynasty window designs found in a busy Shanghai market.
Keeping Faith 2007
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Images of Christ’s life are executed as variations on traditional Chinese paper cutouts, and the surrounding grillwork is based on Qing Dynasty window designs found in a busy Shanghai market.
Keeping Faith 2007
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That first night, lying beside him on our mutual bed after the muffling pillow had been crammed against the grillwork was another of my special memories.
Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967
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However, as this is a world of cars, each is imaginatively fashioned from wheels, fenders, grillwork and other motor vehicle parts.
Lightning McQueen is Back in Worldwide Adventure 'Cars 2' 2011
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The architecture, with its elegant stucco and grillwork, blended Islamic and Hindu styles in a composite known as Indo-Saracenic.
India’s New Face 2009
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The architecture, with its elegant stucco and grillwork, blended Islamic and Hindu styles in a composite known as Indo-Saracenic.
India’s New Face 2009
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However, as this is a world of cars, each is imaginatively fashioned from wheels, fenders, grillwork and other motor vehicle parts.
Lightning McQueen is Back in Worldwide Adventure 'Cars 2' 2011
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However, as this is a world of cars, each is imaginatively fashioned from wheels, fenders, grillwork and other motor vehicle parts.
Lightning McQueen is Back in Worldwide Adventure 'Cars 2' 2011
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However, as this is a world of cars, each is imaginatively fashioned from wheels, fenders, grillwork and other motor vehicle parts.
Lightning McQueen is Back in Worldwide Adventure 'Cars 2' 2011
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Doris swings the Fiat out wide and explodes the entire shell of her car against the truck's grillwork with a sound so hard Boland thinks it's behind him.
The Last of Boland Kilean Kennedy 2011
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