lace·work

[leys-wurk]
noun
lace ( def 1 ).

Origin:
1840–50; lace + work

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lacework

noun
work consisting of (or resembling) lace fabric 
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Lacework is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
Close-up of delicate lacework edges decorating salt pinnacles.
It was less a determined, swift river than a lacework of deltaic streams
  working their way along twisted channels.
Weir's medium is mehndi, an ancient art of temporary lacework tattoos done with
  herbal henna.
When spring arrives the soft, new needles emerge and create a chartreuse
  lacework in the treetops.
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