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trickwork

trickwork noun: trickery of an artistic or spectacular kind.

Noun

trickwork (uncountable)

  1. Trickery of an artistic or spectacular kind.
    • […] another popular acrobatic company from Great Britain recognized for its pantomimes and trickwork.2009, Monica Chiu, Asian Americans in New England: Culture and Community, page 80
    • So popular was trickwork and spectacle with nineteenth-century audiences, in fact, that hundreds of plays were written solely as vehicles for magic, special effects, or elaborately trapped settings.2013, Joel Schechter, Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook, page 16

Origin of trickwork

From trick + -work.

Questions about trickwork

What does trickwork mean?
Trickwork means trickery of an artistic or spectacular kind.
What part of speech is trickwork?
Trickwork is a noun.

Words near trickwork in the dictionary

  1. tricksters
  2. trickstress
  3. trickstresses
  4. tricksy
  5. tricktrack
  6. trickwork
  7. tricky
  8. Tricky Dick
  9. tricky racket
  10. tricky rackets
  11. tricky slave

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