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What does shellwork mean?

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Noun
  1. decoration made from patterns of shells
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However the fact that these two shadow-box grottoes were made by mature women suggests that shellwork was an amusing pastime for women of education and wealth.
They have belts of shellwork slung across their shoulders, and are armed with bows and arrows, and flint-headed spears.
The body is of a modified inverted bell shape, embossed on the lower part with a band of gadroons and shellwork.
Considering how popular shellwork was in Britain, it is not surprising that this form of ornamentation appealed to some well-to-do colonial Americans.
He revelled in elaborate combinations of shellwork and impossible foliage.
And you hate the very sight of shellwork and cone-frames, and Grecian painting, and all such vanities?

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