vermiculated

Adjective

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Adjective (1)

  1. decorated with wormlike tracery or markings“vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework”Synonyms: vermicularvermiculateOpposite plainSimilar fancy
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Ver·mic′u·la′ted adjective

Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.

Vermiculated work, or Vermicular work Architecture, rustic work so wrought as to have the appearance of convoluted worms, or of having been eaten into by, or covered with tracks of, worms. Joseph Gwilt

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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