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What does openwork mean?

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Noun
  1. Any of several forms of metalwork or needlework having decorative openings.
  2. (mining) A quarry; an open cut.
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On this chatelaine, pearls dominate the decoration of the openwork black-and-white enameled gold chains.
This type has a leaf-shaped blade distinguished by carved openwork designs.
She offered a more varied needlework curriculum of plain work, marking, openwork, and embroidery along with reading and writing.
They can be engraved, sculpted in bas-relief, in haut-relief and in certain cases they are cut out with varying degrees of openwork.
These do not have openwork tracery on their hinges but have advanced to a distinctive new naturalistic style.
This ratio, one of his own devising, has remained virtually constant in all of his cubic openwork structures.

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