What is "scrollwork"

Usage examples of "scrollwork".

The men wore short wool coats in bright colors embroidered with angular scrollwork along the shoulders and sleeves, and dark, baggy trousers stuffed into knee boots.

She indicated a narrow arched doorway, framed with exquisite wooden filigree and outlined in lacelike metal scrollwork.

He was in a broad room of red yew, speckled with copper rivets and with floor-to-ceiling hangings on two walls, warmly dark and richly woven and broidered with scrollwork and fanciful animals and twining flowers.

The gold was repeated in a scrollwork of designs that both defined and enhanced every muscular line of the dragon's body.

In fact, I remembered everything-from the tall French windows that opened upon the side terrace and were framed in dusky red draperies threaded with gold, to the burnished brass scrollwork of andirons on the white marble base of the hearth.

To Byron's left, amid stippled scrollwork, a crowned British lion poses rampant above the blurred coils of a defeated serpent, most probably meant to represent the Luddite cause.

A dumb waiter followed her around, all bright gleaming brass and scrollwork, eager to fulfill her every desire.

On this cloudy afternoon, artisans crafted scrollwork around the windows, and new alcoves were being constructed in the building's facade, so that Erasmus could install additional statues as well as more colorful flowerboxes, since Serena Butler enjoyed tending them so much.

They did such an elaborate job of fret-saw scrollwork that the steam organ—with a leather-padded seat for the organist—eventually was hidden within what could have passed for a flower arbor.

There Carter paused in faintness at so much beauty, for the onyx terraces and colonnaded walks, the gay porterres and delicate flowering trees espaliered to golden lattices, the brazen urns and tripods with cunning bas-reliefs, the pedestalled and almost breathing statues of veined black marble, the basalt-bottomed lagoon's tiled fountains with luminous fish, the tiny temples of iridescent singing birds atop carven columns, the marvellous scrollwork of the great bronze gates, and the blossoming vines trained along every inch of the polished walls all joined to form a sight whose loveliness was beyond reality, and half-fabulous even in the land of dreams.

Seen without occupants, the room was like a set from a period play, with the antique furniture, the hand-carved mantel, the gold-inlayed scrollwork around the mirrors.

The sole piece of furniture was an enormous, intricately scrollworked heartwood chair on which sat an equally enormous female clad in billowing turquoise robes edged with gold tassels.

After some time, Khat had been able to repair the instrument, replacing all the fiddly bits of metal and wire by trial and error, and Sagai had polished off the job by painting the case with delicate scrollwork.

A bulky fellow with a small mouth and a little poorly done scrollwork on the shoulders of his rough coat stood glaring at him when he opened his eyes, glaring and fingering the hilt of his curved knife.

He groped, found one leg of the count's chair, and hauled himselfj up, then just stood there feeling the solid square corners under his hands, the scrollwork along the back, the arms carved like the massive smooth backs of hounds, each ending in a snarling face.