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Definition of Lacework
1. Noun. Work consisting of (or resembling) lace fabric.
Definition of Lacework
1. Noun. A piece or example of lace. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lacework
1. a delicate openwork fabric [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacework
Literary usage of Lacework
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Six Months in America by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1833)
"... so as to resemble the finest lacework. On looking up the course of the St.
Lawrence, from this very interesting village, a wide opening is discerned in ..."
2. The Development of Embroidery in America by Candace Wheeler (1921)
"CHAPTER IV A MORAVIAN WORK, PORTRAITURE, FRENCH EMBROIDERY, AND lacework WHILE
the ladies and house mistresses of New England were busy with their ..."
3. By the Waters of Carthage by Norma Lorimer (1906)
"It is indeed lacework in plaster—Venetian point of the finest texture spread over
domes and arches with the profligate luxury of the East. ..."
4. The Bookman (1908)
"If we revert once more to the simile of the lacework pattern, ... Now, the lacework
which nature is weaving out of the assembled life-strand of the world's ..."
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