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n. Openwork embroidery in which the ground fabric is cut away from the design.

n. A form of embroidery in which intervening fabric is cut away

n. An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

n. and adjective

n. In embroidery, applique work: so called because the pattern is cut out and sewed upon the ground.

n. The earliest form of lace; fine needlework upon linen or silk from which a part of the background was cut away, leaving the design pierced. See lace.

Made of cut-work.

n. In typographic printing, the presswork of woodcuts or their electrotypes, or of illustrations of any kind, that requires more skill than that given to ordinary type-work.

n. embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away

"No such cutwork is needed on Twilight, which is merely better suited to the large screen than the large print, where within its 600 pages it was at worst, plodding, and at best, tendentious."

fancywork    embroidery