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Rockwork   Listen
noun
Rockwork  n.  
1.
(Arch.) Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
2.
(Gardening) A rockery.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rockwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... her head, and, as I am a living and honourable man, the white flame of the fire leapt up after them, almost to the roof, throwing a fierce and ghastly glare upon She herself, upon the white figure beneath the covering, and every scroll and detail of the rockwork. ...
— She • H. Rider Haggard

... Cocles; but as he had but one eye, and that eye had become somewhat dim in the course of nine years, Cocles did not recognize the count. The carriages that drove up to the door were compelled to turn, to avoid a fountain that played in a basin of rockwork,—an ornament that had excited the jealousy of the whole quarter, and had gained for the place the appellation of "The Little Versailles." It is needless to add that there were gold and silver fish in the basin. The house, with kitchens and cellars below, ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere



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