Definitions for lacework

lacework lace·work

Spelling: [leys-wurk]
IPA: /ˈleɪsˌwɜrk/

Lacework is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in lacework (aceklorw).

Definitions for lacework

noun

  1. lace (def 1).

Origin of lacework

First recorded in 1840-50; lace + work

Examples for lacework

I could see through the lacework of the blind; the drawing-room was empty.

Overhead the tattered roof of leaves made a lacework of the sun.

The lacework stone spire of the crossing was one of the first in the region.

These powerful buttresses are wonderfully effective in their contrast to the lacework of the sculpture.

He had a deeply lined face with a lacework of tiny wrinkles around the slanted eyes.

The Apaches were turning the side of the globe into lacework.

The next day they traveled fourteen and the next twelve, and there was no lacework of frost at all.

They are extraordinarily level, one long curtain of lacework and woven foam.

It is a light, ethereal sort of structure, and looks like lacework.

Cigar-shaped barges stream under the lacework of the many bridges and make me think of tranquil days and willow-fringed horizons.

Word Value for lacework
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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