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hammering metal until it forgives gravity and pretends to be lace.
means Objects, structures, or decorative pieces made by working iron—gates, railings, grilles, and the like—or the craft of forging them.
from A plain compound of "iron" + "work," both old Germanic words. "Iron" descends from Old English īren (also īsern), a cousin of Dutch ijzer and German Eisen, all reaching back to a Proto-Germanic root that may have been borrowed from a Celtic source. "Work" comes from Old English weorc, tied to a Proto-Indo-European root *werg- meaning "to do" (the same root behind "energy" and "organ"). So the word simply names the doing of iron—labor and metal welded into one honest term.
- weld magic
- Blacksmiths fuse iron by heating it nearly to melting
- eiffel proof
- Tower has 2.5 million rivets holding it together
- wrought reality
- Wrought iron means worked, not wrenched, by hand
- resists time
- Pure iron rusts; alloyed ironwork can outlast centuries
- sky walkers
- Mohawk ironworkers famously built Manhattan's tallest skyscrapers
gates of versailles — ornate 17th-century french palace gates featuring gilt ironwork by jules hardouin-mansart
wrought iron bridges bath — pulteney bridge in bath, england (1769) with decorative iron railings and balustrades
new orleans french quarter — cast iron balconies and railings throughout new orleans' 18th-19th century colonial architecture