treillage

See also: treillagé

English

Etymology

From French treillage. See trellis.

Noun

treillage (plural treillages)

1. latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.
   • 1863 February 21, “The Spectator”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     admire the treillage

   • October 23, 1778, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway

     I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “treillage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• agrellite

French

Etymology

From Old French treille +‎ -age, from Latin trichila (“arbor, bower”). Equivalent to treille +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɛ.jaʒ/, /tʁe.jaʒ/

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Noun

treillage m (plural treillages)

1. trellis

Verb

treillage

1. inflection of treillager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “treillage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.