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grottowork en · NOUN

Etymology

From grotto + work.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) artificial ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto
   • You, in your grotto-work enclos'd, Complain of being thus expos'd; Yet nothing feel in that rough coat, Save when the knife is at your throat 1782, William Cowper, “The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:

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