branchwork
nounEtymology From branch + work.
1
Archaic Collectively, the branches of a tree.
- 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.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
2
Any design or pattern resembling branches.
- Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.1861, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology: