[f. TRELLIS sb.2 + WORK sb.] Wood or metal work consisting of light cross-bars; = TRELLIS sb.2 1. Also, anything resembling this in structure or pattern. Also attrib.
1712. J. James, trans. Le Blond’s Gardening, 74. Cabinets of Trellis-work altogether plain.
1739. Gray, Lett. to West, 21 Nov. Trellis-works covered with vines.
1814. Wordsw., White Doe, IV. 49. Shades Of trellis-work in long arcades.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 99. The corpus spongiosum as well as the corpora cavernosa [of the penis] are divided into cells or trellis-work by an infinite number of fine membranous plates.
1878. Stubbs, Const. Hist., III. xviii. 214. The two kings met, with a grating of trellis-work between them, on the bridge of Pecquigny.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 10 March, 3/2. A very charming blouse … is that with a trellis-work.
1898. Daily News, 5 Sept., 5/1. The tomb … was whitewashed all over and surrounded by a trelliswork fence.
1908. [Miss Fowler], Betw. Trent & Ancholme, 10. A Clematis Montana, surrounding the trelliswork frame.
