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fretwork

[fret-wurk] / ˈfrɛtˌwɜrk /


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US guitarist Carol Kaye, whose fretwork can be heard on classic tracks like You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling and the theme to Mission: Impossible, receives the same honour.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023

Years later they married, and Louise displayed the cherished card, tucked into the fretwork of a bedroom dresser, for decades to come.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

Along the way War has mastered lyric writing, a tool now as keen as her fretwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2018

She’s in one of her best dresses, sky blue with embroidery in white along the edges of the veil: flowers and fretwork.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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