Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Work, especially artistic work, in metal.

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Examples

  • Art nouveau embraced all forms of art and design equally: jewellery, architecture, fur­n­iture, glassware, graphic design, painting, metal-work, pottery and textiles.

    Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Art Nouveau: 1896-1916 Hels 2009

  • Art nouveau embraced all forms of art and design equally: jewellery, architecture, fur­n­iture, glassware, graphic design, painting, metal-work, pottery and textiles.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Hels 2009

  • "My servant will fetch the coffee as usual," said the purchaser, producing a coin from a wonderful metal-work purse.

    literature 2007

  • Last place among the six randomly selected readers went to Frank Warther, a representative for metal-work and machinery companies who lives in Wayne, N.J. His pick,

    Milwaukee Reader Scores the Win -- With an Assist 2008

  • Oshkosh (OSK, $36.28) Frank Warther of Wayne, N.J., a representative for metal-work and machinery companies, chose truck manufacturer Oshkosh because "right now they are undervalued," noting that the company is a major supplier of military vehicles.

    Tobacco Stock Is the Winner in an Ugly Market 2008

  • Although they are plain, the Safari grades are fine guns — excellent metal-work, good wood, hand checkering, and a general reek of quality, not to mention true Mauser and Sako actions.

    The Ten Best Used Deer Guns (and How to Buy Them) 2005

  • He spoke enthusiastically, and with eyes sparkling at the mental image of the said expedition; and as it was rather gloomy in the dome he rolled it round on its axis, till the shuttered slit for the telescope directly faced the morning sun, which thereupon flooded the concave interior, touching the bright metal-work of the equatorial, and lighting up her pale, troubled face.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • They came to a sort of pathway of open metal-work, transverse to the direction they had come, and they turned aside to follow this.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • They will have flung great arches and domes of glass above the wider spaces of the town, the slender beauty of the perfect metal-work far overhead will be softened to a fairy-like unsubstantiality by the mild London air.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • York and her gorgeous plutocracy repeated Venice in the magnificence of her architecture, painting, metal-work and sculpture, for example, in the grim intensity of her political method, in her maritime and commercial ascendancy.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

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