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 Translation for 'openwork' from English to French
NOUN   openwork | -
à claire-voie {adj}openwork [fence etc.]
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Translation for 'openwork' from English to French

openwork [fence etc.]
à claire-voie {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Assuit has great lateral elasticity, thanks to its openwork mesh.
  • Openwork spires were a notable architectural innovation, beginning with the spire at Freiburg Minster, in which the pierced stonework was held together by iron cramps.
  • "Needlepoint" refers to a particular set of stitching techniques worked upon stiff openwork canvas.
  • The technique may be referred more generically to as openwork or pierced work. The equivalent technique in Japan is called sukashibori, and is found in Buddhist art.
  • A very high-status 3rd century gold openwork ring set with garnet, green glass and pale sapphire was found in an unrecorded location in the Fifties, and sold at auction.

  • On the openwork belly, there is a mainly vegetal network, composed of leafy and twisted stems: at the ends of some of these, animal heads and female busts.
  • The base contains a grid of L-shaped openwork patterns in red enamel.
  • The exterior has perforated gables with sharp points, narrow buttresses with many pinnacles, and openwork flying buttresses.
  • In the courtyard, at the back of the lot is located a residential building with an iron porch and a decorative openwork peak, built in 1882 and designed by master mason .
  • The main facade has a decorated portal, openwork balconies with balustrades. Dating from the lattice of the coat of arms of the Leszczynski's.

  • The last floor is reachable by helical stairs (visible in the top openwork part) or by lift.
  • Equally techniques such as casting using moulds create the whole design in a single stage, and are common in openwork.
  • Both ivory and bone were carved in relief panels, often with two or three strips forming a single inlay. Only ivory was used for openwork.
  • They were executed in openwork and consisted of two elements: a lower band with a geometric motif similar to the equivalent openwork added by al-Hafiz to the courtyard of Al-Azhar Mosque, and a wider upper band featuring an interlacing motif similar to the stucco-carved motifs at the top of the Fatimid-era "mihrab" in the Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya.
  • Other remarkable towers were constructed like openwork webs of stone; these include Johannes Hultz's additions to the tower of Freiburg Minster, which had an open spiral staircase and a lacework octagonal spire; the additions were begun in 1419.

  • Renaissance racketts surround the reed with an openwork cylindrical pirouette; Baroque ones are closed-in, with a bocal.
  • San Sebastian Church has two openwork towers and steel vaulting. From its floor, the basilica's nave rises [...] to the dome, and [...] to the tip of the twin spires.
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