millwork

English

Various millwork decorates this stairway, which is being repainted.
This page from a millwork catalogue of 1904 shows suggestions for millwork to be used in stairways and hallways.

Etymology

From mill +‎ work.

Noun

millwork (uncountable)

  2. Components for buildings, produced by milling, such as doors and windows (especially prehung ones) and wood or woodlike trim with decorative cross-sections involving curves, beads, grooves, etc.
    Hypernym: lumber
  4. (US, uncommon) Any wooden object manufactured at a lumbermill (sawmill).
    Synonym: lumber

See also

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