ironwork.

Iron shaped into structural or decorative objects, such as gates and railings.

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Words that belong together

• ornamental ironwork
• wrought ironwork

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Ornamental ironwork cast tangled shadows across the landing.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.