Usage examples (18)

• Noun : an elaborate picture frame decorated with shellwork
• Rooms come with handsome chimneypieces and exquisite shellwork, and there is a turret-top eyrie for ship-watching.
• The Prince still said nothing, only sat, among his gold and shellwork incense-burners, while the images of the twenty-one Old Gods watched his round, pink satin back.
• This vapor rising around the stem of the plant, and attracted by it, becomes congealed into what we term hoar-frost, in numerous forms; some like shellwork, others like...