Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Decorative work, popular in northern Europe in the 1500s and the early 1600s, consisting of interlacing straplike bands, often used in low relief on ceilings, screens, and panels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Architectural ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band represented as folded and crossed, and occasionally interlaced with another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun art, historical A
stylized representation ofstrips orbands ofcurling leather parchment ormetal cut intoelaborate shapes, withpiercings and ofteninterwoven .
Etymologies
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Examples
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From Professor Sweyn I got the runic alphabet from the second century onwards, and an extremely romantic picture of the Devil all done in a kind of strapwork, as though his limbs and things were long tongues.
Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964
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Artisans in the Islamic lands expanded the pre-Islamic repertory of geometric designs to create stunning compositions based on strapwork and tile patterns of triangles, squares, polygons, stars, and other regular forms.
Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen JDsg 2006
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Artisans in the Islamic lands expanded the pre-Islamic repertory of geometric designs to create stunning compositions based on strapwork and tile patterns of triangles, squares, polygons, stars, and other regular forms.
Archive 2006-08-01 JDsg 2006
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Heavy belt, sharp boots, bulging pouch, hardstone signet ring with a thick laced strapwork setting. all his accessories were good.
See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005
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The sword and daggers of the ancient order of sworn warriors glinted among a brass-buckled strapwork of weapons belts and a dark silk sword sash.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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Within the semicircular panel on each side are more sheep pasturing in a landscape, and on all the strapwork, or
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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The plaster ceiling has a central Adams-style medallion and an oval rim of ornate strapwork plaster.
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Each one is just under 6 metres in length and deeply carved with floral and strapwork designs, on three out of the four sides, including trefoil and diamond motifs.
Art Knowledge News 2008
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Each one is just under 6 metres in length and deeply carved with floral and strapwork designs, on three out of the four sides, including trefoil and diamond motifs.
Art Knowledge News 2008
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"linen-fold" design in the wainscoting, and there was also much elaborate carving and strapwork.
Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop
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