Meaning of trellis-work | Babel Free

Examples

“[…] the trellis-work of lace and ruffles […]”

“Through leaves and trellis-work the sun Left the wine cool within the glass,— They feasting where no sun could pass: […]”

“Love’s corpse lies quiet therefore, / Only Love’s ghost plays truant, / And warns us have in wholesome awe / Durable mansionry; that’s wherefore / I weave but trellis-work, pursuant / —Life, to law.”

“1932, Arthur G. Chater (translator), The Burning Bush (Den brændende busk) (1930) by Sigrid Undset, New York: Knopf, Book One, Chapter Five, p. 96, Paul strolled about the garden and watched the stars coming out above the intricate trellis-work of the apple-trees’ branches.”

“Small pieces of velvet and brocade were spread around, and between every two lamps and incense-burners were trellis-works of gold or silver.”

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