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ˈpoker-work
[f. poker n.1 + work n.]
Artistic work done by burning a design on the surface of white wood with a heated pointed implement. Also fig. Hence poker-worked a. (in example applied to a design resembling poker-work).
Originally, a pointed poker was used, later the ‘heater’ of an Italian iron (see quot. for poker-picture s.v. poker1 9), etc.; now done with a special apparatus the essential feature of which is a platinum point or pointer kept continuously hot for the purpose.
1813J. Forsyth Remarks Excursion Italy 91 note, The process called cestrotum was, in my opinion, nothing but poker-work. 1892E. Rowe Chip-carving (1895) 37 Ready-made objects, such as are sold for painting or poker work. 1894Daily News 2 May 8/4 There is a cedar-lined escritoire in deep poker work, a really beautiful piece of furniture. 1914[see Georgianism]. 1929E. Bowen Last September ix. 104 Cushions..with poker-worked kittens. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby x. 193 He..does poker-work with red-hot wire, finishing off with tiny colour sketches. 1958L. Durrell Balthazar v. 104 He has had an immense and vivid firescreen made for the flat..in poker-work. 1966Listener 29 Dec. 959/2 The play relapses into what it looked as if it was going to satirize. By the end we are left with a stuffy, inhibiting piece of Victorian poker-work as a message. 1973Times 31 July 14/8 She remembered well the famous Breton school of artists at Pont-Aven which included Gauguin. He made her a pair of ‘sabots’ in poker work. 1977Listener 11 Aug. 171/3 An element of family creativity here, not too dissimilar to the Victorian samplers and poker-work. |