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

Example sentences :

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

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