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  • noun The work of a stonemason.

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Examples

  • A good substitute for any LGBT community for a trans female is stonemasonry.

    Third-Gendering « Bound, Not Gagged 2009

  • He worked at the cathedral from 1953 to 1955 and taught stonemasonry for his union before helping construct the permanent gravesite for President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in 1966.

    A Local Life: Peter 'Billy' Cleland, 88; master stonemason 2010

  • He moved to the United States in 1947 and learned stonemasonry and bricklaying from his father-in-law.

    Obituaries 2010

  • I think directing action scenes has gone the way of high-end stonemasonry, now.

    Never ask a sales person for advice amuchmoreexotic 2008

  • "To me, this is the ultimate expression of stonemasonry and stone carving."

    A Local Life: Peter 'Billy' Cleland, 88; master stonemason 2010

  • When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildingsyounger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stonemasonry to look olderand thought, This is a dream come true.

    Excerpt: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 2007

  • Thirty-third Deck and the two decks under it made up the manufacturing area of the juggernaut, where every kind of light industry was carried out, from clock making to boot making, stonemasonry to joinery.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • Thirty-third Deck and the two decks under it made up the manufacturing area of the juggernaut, where every kind of light industry was carried out, from clock making to boot making, stonemasonry to joinery.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • All that remains now is the elegant Palladian granite façade; its fine stonemasonry featured a triple-arched entrance and stylised Classical pediment.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Hels 2009

  • All that remains now is the elegant Palladian granite façade; its fine stonemasonry featured a triple-arched entrance and stylised Classical pediment.

    Beechworth's Victorian Architecture Hels 2009

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