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grillework en · NOUN

Etymology

From grille + work.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative spelling of grillwork.
    alt of grillwork
    • And that night he will take his leave of his lady the princess through the grillework at the window of the bedchamber where she sleeps, which overlooks a garden, and through this grillework he has already spoken to her many times, their go-between and confidante being a lady-in-waiting greatly trusted by the princess. Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, page 159: