Definitions
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- noun Material woven in the style of a
basket . - noun The
craft of making such material.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Handwritten signs lead to homes selling hand-crafted baskets and simple pottery; the local basketwork is particularly fine.
Part one - La Paz and El Triunfo: from beaches and baskets to mines, music and marine park 2008
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Handwritten signs lead to homes selling hand-crafted baskets and simple pottery; the local basketwork is particularly fine.
Part one - La Paz and El Triunfo: from beaches and baskets to mines, music and marine park 2008
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A dozen or more canoes were beached along the mud flats; some of them dug-out trees, others of a kind of basketwork covered in skins.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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The little lug on its left side is made to look like basketwork, which makes me think the shape of the whole vessel might imitate a wicker or maybe leather container.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Cambodian Bronze Blake Gopnik 2010
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Its crisp, clear surface has been sandblasted with the fine patterns of traditional basketwork, making it look almost as though Feddersen had cast an actual basket in frosted glass.
New 'Vantage Point' show at American Indian museum shows off symbolic power Blake Gopnik 2010
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Neither did they have any ceramic or pottery vessels, relying instead on items made from stone or basketwork.
Loreto and San Javier: From Sun, Sand and Snorkeling to Museums, Missions and Mountains. 2008
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Neither did they have any ceramic or pottery vessels, relying instead on items made from stone or basketwork.
Loreto and San Javier: From Sun, Sand and Snorkeling to Museums, Missions and Mountains. 2008
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Skill and effort in the basketwork and writing, though - just a truly alarming lack of judgement in the face department.
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A wigwam of driftwood spars lashed to the central totem pole was encircled by a pattern of grey sticks laid out like basketwork and punctuated by such objects as the flip-flop sandals and trainers that seem perpetually to ride the waves, Coke cans, garish cork or plastic lobster-pot buoys and the armoured white carapaces of spider crabs that abound on this beach.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I prop a ladder against one side, lay two scaffold boards along the basketwork of the roof and rope them down.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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