fretwork
Example Sentences
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He doubles and triples the armatures to make fretworks on which the colours hang, no longer motionless but with a faint thrum and tremor as though beginning the tune up for full Boogie-Woogie.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2010
On these fretworks, so heard I, four horses therewith, All alike, close followed after the track, Steeds apple-fallow.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
On his key-board of imbricated tones there are grays that felicitously sing across alien strawberry tints, thence modulate into fretworks of dim golden fire.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
