The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Frostwork
FROST'WORK
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Noun.
Work resembling hoar-frost on shrubs.
Definition 2025
frostwork
frostwork
English
Noun
frostwork(countable and uncountable, pluralfrostworks)
Any naturally occurring intricate pattern of icecrystals
Frostwork keeps its place on the window within three feet of the stove all day in my chamber.– Thoreau, H., Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888, p 343.