Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Embellishment with a scroll motif, especially ornamentation executed in wood with a scroll saw.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ornamental work of any kind in which scrolls, or lines of scroll-like character, are an element
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Ornamentation in ascroll pattern, especially inwoodwork .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stacked, with ribbon or simple scrollwork, which is very, very popular, "he said.
Stories: Local News 2010
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Stacked, with ribbon or simple scrollwork, which is very, very popular, "he said.
Stories: Local News 2010
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He swiveled around, looking past green-shuttered doorways, past night-pooled balconies with pots of ferns and roses and geraniums hanging from their black iron scrollwork, the flowers perfuming the humid air, and toward the restless flickers of neon on Bourbon.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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I grab and miss the top rail and my right hand gets caught in the lower scrollwork and the flat rusted edge of the iron scrapes clear across my palm.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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The massive wooden doors, intricately carved with ornate scrollwork and inlaid with green-veined ruatinite, dominated the courtyard.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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He swiveled around, looking past green-shuttered doorways, past night-pooled balconies with pots of ferns and roses and geraniums hanging from their black iron scrollwork, the flowers perfuming the humid air, and toward the restless flickers of neon on Bourbon.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Angelica points up and shows them the scrollwork along the ceiling, which makes them ooh and aah.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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I stand on the marble porch and lay my hand on the cold iron scrollwork of the stair railing.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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The massive wooden doors, intricately carved with ornate scrollwork and inlaid with green-veined ruatinite, dominated the courtyard.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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The massive wooden doors, intricately carved with ornate scrollwork and inlaid with green-veined ruatinite, dominated the courtyard.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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