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fancyworks

fancyworks is the plural of fancywork.

Meaning of fancywork

Noun

fancywork (countable and uncountable, plural fancyworks)

  1. (historical) Ornamental (as opposed to plain or reparative) work in needlework, knitting or similar handicrafts; decorative embroidery.
    • The girls were all settling down to fancy work, the white-cuffed hands of the Martins were already jerking crochet needles, faces were bending over fine embroideries and Minna Blum had trundled a mounted lace-pillow into the brighter light.1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 83

Questions about fancyworks

What is fancyworks the plural of?
Fancyworks is the plural of fancywork.

Words near fancyworks in the dictionary

  1. fancyless
  2. fancymonger
  3. fancymongers
  4. fancypants
  5. fancywork
  6. fancyworks
  7. fand
  8. fandabidozi
  9. fandangle
  10. fandangles
  11. fandango

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