Definition of "trellis-work" [trellis-work]

• Same as latticework. (noun)
• A modern kind of fancy work made by cutting out patterns in different materials and applying them upon a background with needlework edging, etc. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "We wind about beneath a trellis-work of reeds and fall into the black magic market, where dried lizards, pythons, crocodiles, turtles, hedgehogs, lynx and unidentifiable creatures are chopped and minced and mixed with indecipherable spices to create elixirs, nostrums and potions to cast spells, to aid in fertility and virility, and here even cure intolerance."
• "This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes."
• "Not to mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding thread."