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truss

[truhs] / trʌs /


NOUN
framework
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It is to his credit that the cathedral is not a simulacrum or facsimile, but a Gothic building, in all its structural reality, even the invisible oak roof truss above the vaults.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Absent those images, watching Lois debone, stuff and truss up a turducken would be mouthwatering.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2024

It hangs upstairs at the Broad museum, displayed along with Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and a nifty diagram for a ruptured hernia truss.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

The wing is attached to the top of the fuselage and braced by a truss from the bottom of the fuselage.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023

It was a bowstring truss seventy feet high.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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