caming

caming
 n.— «Some of the windows are made of hundreds of pieces of glass held together using brass strips, a technique called caming.» —“Saving Frank Lloyd Wright” by Tim Louis Macaluso City Newspaper (Rochester, New York) June 21, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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