metalwork
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- noun
- /ˈmɛtəlˌwɜrk/
:
trabajo en metal
- At least the metalwork of the toggles was bright enough to pass old H'nalt's scrutiny.
Pots like these were as powerful and important as the metalwork.
- Pots like these were as powerful and important as the metalwork.
Examples
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We have just received a collection of hundreds of examples of metalwork, especially iron currencies, that will go on display on another round.
Academic text (2007) -
There was the metalwork, for starters: a filigree of threads far more intricate than it had appeared at first sight.
Fiction book (1997) -
"What, in the daylight?" he asked, looking up from his fine metalwork.
Fiction book (1994) -
The metalwork was, in fact, a double ring, now bent and twisted out of shape.
Blog text (7) -
Swann now takes the three strange pieces of metalwork from his jacket.
Fiction book (1995) -
The museum's Tuareg collection includes objects in wood, leather, basketwork, metalwork, and jewelry.
Academic text (2006) -
At the back of Burlington Gardens, the Museum of Mankind mounted a display of contemporary metalwork sculpture by the London-based Nigerian artist Sokari Douglas Camp.
Academic text (1998) -
Nothing remains of the Incas' precious metalwork, melted down into ingots for the royal mints at Toledo and Seville.
Fiction book (1991) -
One of the best examples of this type of architectural metalwork is Ugolino di Vieri's exceptional reliquary of the Holy Corporal at Orvieto (1337738).
Academic text (2004) -
The talented blacksmith displayed an impressive collection of metalwork crafted for the local art festival.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Metalwork is the simple joining of metal and work, so it literally points to 'work' made of metal. That's why metalwork can mean the metal parts of an object, like the pieces on a gate or clock that are 'made of metal'.