Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Lace, usually of linen thread, made on a cushion with bobbins, and taking its sole or chief decorative character from the pattern woven into it, as distinguished from point-lace: so named from the fact that the bobbins were originally made of bone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone.
- n. etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc.
Examples
“Here it is they make the fine bone lace in imitation of the Antwerp and Flanders Lace and jndeed I think its as fine – it only will not wash so fine, wch must be the fault in ye thread.”
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
“Then there was a considerable annual importation into Scotland of worked ruffles and of bone lace and edging which the Select Society thought might, under proper encouragement, be quite as well produced at home; and it was therefore resolved to give both honorary and lucrative rewards for superior merit in such work, the honorary for “women of fashion” who might compete, and the lucrative for those “whose laudable industry contributes to their own support.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bone lace’.
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Lace
Terms pertaining to lace and lace-making. Patterns, tools, types, styles, stitches.
bone lace, pillow lace, point, needlelace, bobbin lace, bones, bobbin, linen thread, hand-lacemaking, lace pillow, bobbinet, lacemakers' guild and 256 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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words I find interesting; this list is sort of pointless.
jawbone, tropic, augury, echo, Pleistocene, bone lace, lunar, reverie, stardust, secret, wanderlust, alpenglow and 4 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Also bobbin lace and pillow lace. Link.
May 4, 2011