boneworkn.
/ˈbəʊnwəːk/, U.S. /ˈboʊnˌwərk/ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > pillow or bobbin
bonework1556
bone lace1564
bobbin-work1681
pillow lace1815
Madras lace1882
point1882
bobbin-lace-
1556 Indenture 5 May in T. Warton Life Sir T. Pope (1772) App. 322 A clothe for the Sacrament of whyte taffata edged with bone worke.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1099/2 A faire hat of veluet, with a broad bone-worke lace about it.
1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 13/2 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. Wires of siluer, bone worke or bone lace, stitched worke, headattire of all sorts.
2. Items made or carved from bone, considered collectively; (sometimes) spec. decoration made from carved or inlaid bone. Cf. metalwork n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] > work in specific medium
bonework1557
shell-work1611
rockwork1615
feather-work1665
quillwork1688
boss-work1697
ice work1729
wafer-work1789
filigree paper1800
feather-mosaic1843
cut paper1847
plumagery1854
leather-work1856
graffito1863
cuerda seca1911
papercraft1917
barbola1927
rosemaling1933
cuenca1939
penwork1969
1557 Newe Yere's Guiftes geuon to Quenis Maiestie 9 in J. Nichols Illustr. Manners & Expences Antient Times (1797) A stowle of wallnuttre, set with boneworke.
1679 G. Miege Dict. Barbarous French sig. Yv Ossaillerie, bone-work; bone-stuff.
1835 Times 18 Aug. 8/5 Mr Booth will sell by auction..fine tools, bone work, pallet knives, combs.
1888 Archaeol. Rev. 2 75 Great artistic skill, shown especially in neat inlaid bone-work, and carved figures.
1921 Amer. Anthropologist 23 363 Bonework has been the Cinderella of native Indian handicrafts..overshadowed by the variety and interest of the stone implements.
1991 J. Blair & N. Ramsay Eng. Medieval Industries xiv. 363 Pre-Norman bonework.
3. The internal supporting structure of the body; the skeleton; the bone structure. Frequently figurative.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skeleton > [noun]
bonesOE
notomy1487
rames1497
charnel1562
skelet1565
skeleton1578
anatomy1591
atomy1597
cadavera1682
bonework1753
osteology1854
scaffolding1886
1753 Acct. Life & Char. Late Rev. J. Murphy 8 Soon shall this Flesh, which now cloaths this Frame of Bone-Work, rot from my Joints.
1837 Morning Chron. 10 Oct. They were the vertebrae, the ribs, the bone-work of the body politic.
1866 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Dec. 609/2 This is especially the case in those who, having weak bone-work, are also pigeon-chested.
1903 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 23 227 The strongly pronounced bonework of the jaw.
1925 Times 30 Nov. 13/4 It was built..on a bonework of brick, for which the arch-form was essential.
2011 New Literary Hist. 42 620 The exoskeleton is not the internal bonework of a body that has died and been buried.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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