lace : Idioms & Phrases

• a kind of point lace, entirely of needlework, first made at Alencon in France, in the 17th century. It is very durable and of great beauty and cost.

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• thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting.

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• noun a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins; the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins
  bobbin lace.
  

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• lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.

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• a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone.

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• etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc.

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• noun fine lace with a raised or applique design
  

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• an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.

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• a kind of lace, made of gold thread.

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• lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt.

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• a netted fillet for tying up the hair of the head. Swift.

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Hon"i*ton lace`

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1. . A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.

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• noun small bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines
  

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• noun small tufted fern of northwestern America
  Cheilanthes gracillima.
  

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• verb hit violently, as in an attack
  pitch into; lam into; tear into; lay into.
  

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• thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts.

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• (Zoöl.), a large, aquatic, Australian lizard (Hydrosaurus giganteus), allied to the monitors.

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• noun the act or art of making handmade lace
  tatting.
  

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• paper with an openwork design in imitation of lace.

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• (Shipbuilding), the main piece of timber which supports the beak or head projecting beyond the stem of a ship.

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• . See under Pillow.

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• verb draw through eyes or holes
  lace.
  
  • lace the shoelaces

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Lace"-bark` noun

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1. (Bot.) A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.

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• noun low-growing creeping perennial of Central America having deeply fringed white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Episcia
  Alsobia dianthiflora; Episcia dianthiflora.
  

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Lace"-winged` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies.

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• noun perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America
  reed canary grass; ribbon grass; Phalaris arundinacea; gardener's garters.
  

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La"dy's la"ces

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1. (Bot.) A slender climbing plant; dodder.

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• a fine handmade lace, made at Lisle.

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Mac"ra*me lace"

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1. A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.

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• noun a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins; the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins
  bobbin lace.
  

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• handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow.

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• noun lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern
  needlepoint.
  

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• lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow.

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• noun a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots
  wild carrot; Daucus carota.
  

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Sea" la"ces

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1. (Bot.) A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.

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• a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; called also seaming lace.

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• noun a lace used for fastening shoes
  shoelace; shoestring; shoe string.
  

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• noun shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
  silver lace; dusty miller; Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum; Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum.
  

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• noun twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia
  Polygonum aubertii; China fleece vine; Russian vine.
  

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• noun shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
  silver lace; dusty miller; Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum; Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum.
  

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• adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
  puritanical; prissy; square-toed; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; victorian; prudish; prim; straightlaced; priggish.
  
  • my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts

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• adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
  puritanical; prissy; square-toed; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; victorian; prudish; prim; straightlaced; priggish.
  
  • my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts

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Strait"-laced` adjective

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1. Bound with stays.

   Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke.

2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. R. Fuller.
3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

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• lace made of linen thread.

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• adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
  puritanical; prissy; square-toed; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; victorian; prudish; prim; straightlaced; priggish.
  
  • my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts

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Tor"chon lace`

Etymology

F. torchon a kind of coarse napkin.

Definitions

1. a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.

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• noun a type of bobbin lace with floral patterns
  Valenciennes.
  

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Va*len`ci*ennes" lace"

Etymology

F.; -- so called after the town of Valenciennes.

Definitions

1. A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net.

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• lace having a warp crossed by weft threads.

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• a coarse pillow lace made from the silky hair of the yak.

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Y"pres lace`

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1. Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace.

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