trellis work

plural trellis works

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of trelliswork.

   They also planted bushes and constructed trellis works of bamboo saplings to cover exposed portions of roads.

   2009, John Darrell Sherwood, “Air Operations in Laos”, in Nixon’s Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968–1972 (The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War), Washington, D.C.: Naval History & Heritage Command, →ISBN, page 7, column 1

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   There was a trellis work made of bamboo, covered with the Grenadilla vine, pomegranates with their splendid fruit, and many other trees and plants all alike novel to us.

   1841, A[lison] C[harles] Carmichael, chapter III, in Tales of a Grandmother, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 29

   The rows of guilt chairs were banished, and all around the vast room there were cubicles made of trellis work up which living ivy and other climbing plants, planted in pots, had been trained; […]

   1973, Norah Lofts, “Narrative by Annabelle d’Aubigny. 1804–1815”, in Nethergate, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 207