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n. -An artistic product that consists of a large-scale alteration or modification of an area of land in a configuration designed by an artist or of an artist's sculptural installation, as in a museum or gallery, of soil, rock, or similar elemental materia

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  • Behind the earthwork was a small fire, and he knew that men would be sitting about it.
  • -- Typical masonry and earthwork dams of the world.
  • Not many miles distant is an earthwork still known as
  • Every little hillock served the purpose of an earthwork.
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