copperwork
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]copperwork (uncountable)
- Works made from copper.
- 2007 November 11, Seth Sherwood, “36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco”, in New York Times[1]:
- The cafe serves a Moroccan breakfast (orange juice, yogurt, sweet crepes, honey and jam; 100 dirhams), and the Museum of Islamic Art offers wrought Persian astrolabes, Syrian copperwork and shimmering Moroccan textiles.
- 2014, P. F. Lye, Metalwork Theory, page 35:
- Although much of the copperwork done in school workshops is planished only once, many craftsmen planish their work three or four times in order to get a perfect finish.