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quillwork

quillwork noun: decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.

Noun

quillwork (countable and uncountable, plural quillworks)

  1. Decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.
    • On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle. Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface.2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61

Forms of quillwork

pluralquillworks

Origin of quillwork

From quill + work.

Questions about quillwork

What does quillwork mean?
Quillwork means decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.
What part of speech is quillwork?
Quillwork is a noun.
What is the plural of quillwork?
The plural of quillwork is quillworks.

Words near quillwork in the dictionary

  1. quillow
  2. quillows
  3. quills
  4. quilltail
  5. quilltails
  6. quillwork
  7. quillworks
  8. quillwort
  9. quillworts
  10. quilly
  11. Quilmes

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