Definition of "cutwork" []

• Openwork embroidery in which the ground fabric is cut away from the design. (noun)

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• "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."
• "It was rimed with dust and white mildew, but the cutwork around the ankle was distinctive."
• "An uncommonly beautiful vegetable (I think of it as Nature's artistic cutwork), the nadur is used extensively in some Northern regions of India, but is a completely new vegetable to me."