Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Latticework, especially a trellis for a vine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In horticulture, a structure of light posts and rails for supporting wall-trees, etc.; a lattice; a trellis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
latticework forsupporting vines , etc.; anespalier ; atrellis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun latticework used to support climbing plants
Etymologies
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Examples
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Click on the left of the treillage (a window will appear) and enter the number from the mathematician's riddle (9152).
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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At the extremity of the lists which was nearest to the city, there was a range of elevated galleries for the King and his courtiers, so highly decorated with rustic treillage, intermingled with gilded ornaments, that the spot retains to this day the name of the Golden, or Gilded, Arbour.
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She appeared amongst her companions, and vanished from them, with a degree of rapidity which was inconceivable and hedges, treillage, or such like obstructions, were surmounted by her in a manner which the most vigilant eye could not detect; for, after being observed on the side of the barrier at one instant, in another she was beheld close beside the spectator.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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It is painted with treillage and filled with sweet peas, lavender, and alchemilla, intended—according to Mirabel, who directed the flower theming—to evoke the freshness of the English countryside in June in contrast to the atmosphere of an old bus station, which the theater usually evokes.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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It is painted with treillage and filled with sweet peas, lavender, and alchemilla, intended—according to Mirabel, who directed the flower theming—to evoke the freshness of the English countryside in June in contrast to the atmosphere of an old bus station, which the theater usually evokes.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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It is painted with treillage and filled with sweet peas, lavender, and alchemilla, intended—according to Mirabel, who directed the flower theming—to evoke the freshness of the English countryside in June in contrast to the atmosphere of an old bus station, which the theater usually evokes.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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Anna had come from behind the treillage to meet him, and Levin saw in the dim light of the study the very woman of the portrait, in a dark blue shot gown, not in the same position nor with the same expression, but with the same perfection of beauty which the artist had caught in the portrait.
Anna Karenina 2003
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TREILLE, _f. _, ceps de vigne élevés contre un mur _ou_ un treillage.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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I like Hamilton's little Marly; we walked in the great allee, and drank tea in the arbour of treillage; they talked of Shakspeare and Booth, of Swift and my Lord Bath, and I was thinking of Madame Sevigne.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890
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One shed shelters an entire semicircle of _treillage_, pure Louis XV., an exquisite example of a lost art.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 1884
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