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1552 T. Barnabe Let. 1 Oct. in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Econ. Documents (1924) II. 99 Newcastle coals, without which that they [sc. the French] can neither make stele-work, or metal-work, nor wyre-work, not goldsmith-work.

1679 Guillim's Display of Heraldry (ed. 5) iv. viii. 224 And so from Tools of Masonry and Carpentry born in Coat-Armour, we come to Instruments of Metal-work (the other Species of Armature) whether the same be malleable and wrought by Hammer, or Fusil, and formed by fire.

1765 Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Enchasing The art of enriching and beautifying gold, silver, and other metal-work, by some design, or figures represented thereon, in low relievo.

1800 J. Salmon Hist. Descr. Anc. & Mod. Rome II. 22 The metal work on the first altar on the right is finely executed by Fancelli.

1847 R. Brandon & J. A. Brandon Anal. Gothick Archit. I. 102 Queen Eleanor's tomb was formerly protected by a most costly and elaborate piece of metalwork, consisting of scrolls and flowers peculiar to the period.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 52 [Corinth] being especially celebrated for metal-work and porcelain.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. vi. 92 The steamer was all white without except the black metal work.

1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe viii. 179 The splendours of the Ottonian revival in painting, miniature, ivory, and metal work.

1987 R. Doyle Commitments 124 Art was an option he'd done in school because there was no room for him in metal work and there was no way they could get him into home economics.

1998 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 18 Mar. 8/1 There is metalwork on the Sydney Harbour Bridge that no one wants re~painted.