English

Noun

lathework ‎(uncountable)

1. Work produced on a lathe.
   • 2009 March 24, Michiko Kakutani, “Land of Promise, Home of the Bedeviled and Bewildered”, in New York Times:

     Indeed, he uses his reportorial talent for description to conjure the glum, shopworn world they inhabit: he notices the linoleum curling at its seams, the fake antique furniture “broken out in pediments and lathework grenades and ornamental buboes,” the old sewing machine “whose plastic had gone yellow.”