grottowork
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Noun[edit]
grottowork (usually uncountable, plural grottoworks)
- artificial ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto
- 1782, William Cowper, “The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- You, in your grotto-work enclos'd,
Complain of being thus expos'd;
Yet nothing feel in that rough coat,
Save when the knife is at your throat
References[edit]
“grotto-work”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.