branchworkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

branchwork (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 branchworks)

1. (archaic) Collectively, the branches of a tree.
   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3

     and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root, through the jetty sprigs of which the fair skin shew'd as in a fine evening you may have remark'd the clear light ether throught the branchwork of distant trees over-topping the summit of a hill.

2. Any design or pattern resembling branches.
   • 1861, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology

     Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.