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lace | American Dictionary

lace
noun
us/leɪs/

lacenoun (MATERIAL)

[ U ]
a decorative cloth that is made by weaving thin thread into delicate patterns having small spaces within them:
a lace curtain/handkerchief

lacenoun (CORD)

[ Cusually pl ]
a cord used to close a shoe or boot; shoelace:
Your laces are untied.

lace (up)

verb[ T ]us/leɪs (ʌp)/
She laced her boots.

Examples of lace

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The lace was taken from her wedding gown and the ribbons were ' old ' and came from her wearing apparel.
Bewilderingly, like her point lace, her story's introductory proprieties are delayed until the second paragraph.
The early lace machines were in fact developed from knitting machines, and drew on local reserves of capital, labour and technical knowledge.
Lace-making, ribbon-making, and the like were also part of this programme.
A border of lace can protect edges from unraveling or wearing down.
Of these, the single most important item was lace (1,052,460 francs), followed by silk fabric (794,508 francs) and leather gloves (585,954 francs).
While on horseback, the fair equestrian shunned the lace, frills, and furbelows worn by her pedestrian sisters.
Terms such a 'barbaric', 'primitive' and 'uncivilised' laced the forest literature of the period.
Trades included were iron manufacture, coal and mineral mining, hardware, cutlery, knitting, cloth and leather trades, as well as pottery and lace making.
It is reasonable if the landmark has not been loosed in a previous loop and the control lace is fast enough.
Topographies and histories of local industry often emphasize differences between hosiery and lace, but they also note overlaps.
Some people wear laces on their foot, what should we call that?
Much of this detail may be familiar enough - gleaned as it is from standard sources - but the pages are laced with the unanticipated.
This is because of the flowing prose laced with irresistible titles and sub-titles that have become the trademark of the author.
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