[ noun ] framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal <noun.artifact>
Fretwork \Fret"work\, n. [6th fret + work.] Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.
Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. --Macaulay.
Its buildings were characteristically Victorian, several storeys high, lined with fretwork verandas. Then on February 3 1931, the region was struck by an earthquake.