Meaning of lathework | Babel Free

Definitions

Work produced on a lathe.

uncountable

Examples

“Indeed, he uses his reportorial talent for description to conjure the glum, shopworn world they inhabit: he notices the linoleum curling at its seams, the fake antique furniture “broken out in pediments and lathework grenades and ornamental buboes,” the old sewing machine “whose plastic had gone yellow.””

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