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[ noun ] ornamental work (such a embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings

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(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Square corner - and gate_posts were an open-work pattern of cast-iron foliage ; they were topped by steeples complete in every detail : high_pitched roof , pinnacle , and narrow gable .

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