The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shellwork \Shell"work`\, n.
Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.
--Cotgrave.
Wiktionary
n. decoration made from patterns of shells
Usage examples of "shellwork".
Page 77 but not expensive, as were the fans and bits of shellwork and carved ivories which Captain Eli wished to tie upon the twigs of the tree.
His memories of his father-or the man he believed to have been his father-existed only in flashes, isolated incidents of time: being picked up, up and up and up at the end of those powerful arms, and the coal black face with the gray shellwork of tribal scars grinning joyfully below him, or walking along the edge of the bayou, listening to the deep bass voice hum-sing songs he barely recalled.
Anakin pushed his way through the rain-slickered portround crowd, through vendors and street performers, past long rows of cantinas and tapcafs and souvenir shops full of mostly fake lacy shellwork and grossly caricatured statuettes of Grand Moff Tarkin.