Also 7 treilliage, 8 treilage. [a. F. treillage (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. treille, TRAIL sb.2 + -age, -AGE.]
1. Lattice-work; a framework upon which vines or ornamental plants are trained; a trellis.
1698. W. King, trans. Sorbière’s Journ. Lond., 28. At St. James’s Park there were no Pavillions nor decoration of Treilliage and Flowers.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 477, ¶ 1. There are as many kinds of Gardening as of Poetry:… Contrivers of Bowers and Grotto’s, Treillages and Cascades, are Romance Writers.
1830. Greville, Mem. Geo. IV., 20 April (1875), I. 335. A walk under a treillage of vines.
1907. Edin. Rev., Jan., 151. The garden is laid out with treillage and grass plot.
b. attrib.
1803. Repton, Landscape Gard. (1805), 104. Advantage may be taken of treillage ornaments to admit light.
1835. Fraser’s Mag., XII. 524. Several vines trained over treillage-work.
2. A lattice or grill in a room.
1836. T. Hook, G. Gurney (new ed.), 35. I was placed in the manager’s box, allotted the seat of honour behind the treillage.
Hence Treillaged a., trellised.
1810. Shelley, Zastrozzi, iv. Their treillaged ornaments were silvered by the clear moonlight.
