Definition of Laciness

1. the quality of being lacy [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laciness

lachrymate
lachrymation
lachrymations
lachrymator
lachrymatories
lachrymators
lachrymatory
lachrymiform
lachrymose
lachrymosely
lachrymosities
lachrymosity
lacier
laciest
lacily
laciness (current term)
lacinesses
lacing
lacings
lacinia
laciniae
laciniae tubae
laciniate
laciniate ligament
laciniated
laciniation
laciniations
laciniolate
lacinula
lacinulae

Literary usage of Laciness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1910)
"She was clad, in her turn, in all the pretty laciness of a negligee; and, sitting before her looking-glass, was thoughtfully brushing out strand after ..."

2. Spanish Ironwork by Arthur Byne, Mildred Stapley Byne (1915)
"... to find the ironworker likewise overstepping the limits of his stubborn material, and reaching a laciness hardly surpassed by gold and silver workers. ..."

3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1905)
"She had raised a white sunshade of bewildering laciness and was twirling it over her shoulder, and it seemed to the gloom- enfolded Peter that she presented ..."

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