OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11536

lace

/leɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
blonda • encaje
A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all t…
c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.
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