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Antonyms for lacework
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : leys-wurk |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈleɪsˌwɜrk |
Definition of lacework
- As in net : noun mesh, web
- As in web : noun netting
- As in filigree : noun ornamental art
- The Apaches were turning the side of the globe into lacework.
- Extract from : « The Defiant Agents » by Andre Alice Norton
- Overhead the tattered roof of leaves made a lacework of the sun.
- Extract from : « Trusia » by Davis Brinton
- I could see through the lacework of the blind; the drawing-room was empty.
- Extract from : « Hugo » by Arnold Bennett
- It is a light, ethereal sort of structure, and looks like lacework.
- Extract from : « Across India » by Oliver Optic
- Cigar-shaped barges stream under the lacework of the many bridges and make me think of tranquil days and willow-fringed horizons.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- These powerful buttresses are wonderfully effective in their contrast to the lacework of the sculpture.
- Extract from : « Rodin: The Man and his Art » by Judith Cladel
- The next day they traveled fourteen and the next twelve, and there was no lacework of frost at all.
- Extract from : « Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police » by James Oliver Curwood
- The lacework stone spire of the crossing was one of the first in the region.
- Extract from : « How France Built Her Cathedrals » by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
- They are extraordinarily level, one long curtain of lacework and woven foam.
- Extract from : « Letters from America » by Rupert Brooke
- He had a deeply lined face with a lacework of tiny wrinkles around the slanted eyes.
- Extract from : « The Colors of Space » by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Synonyms for lacework
- cloth
- cobweb
- complexity
- entanglement
- fabric
- fiber
- filigree
- fretwork
- gossamer
- interconnection
- interlace
- interlacing
- involvement
- labyrinth
- lace
- lacework
- lattice
- mat
- matting
- maze
- mesh
- meshwork
- morass
- net
- netting
- network
- openwork
- ornamentation
- plait
- reticulation
- reticulum
- screen
- skein
- snarl
- tangle
- texture
- tissue
- toil
- tracery
- trellis
- warp
- weave
- webbing
- weft
- wicker
- woof
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