Noun: westwork
| Singular | westwork |
| Plural | westworks |
Sample Sentences
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Facing the raised sanctuary over the vast crypt they also often erected at the west end of the nave a towerlike structure with vaulted stories, that we call the "westwork." [1987, Malcolm Quantrill, The Environmental Memory: Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas, page 134:]
Nouns inflected like westwork
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Calque of German Westwerk, from German West (“west”) + Werk (“work”); equivalent to English west + -work. See: German Nouns '
Westwerk', German Nouns '
West'.