Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Lace.
- n. In bookbinding, a style of angular decoration, which in its simplest form is like a row of saw-teeth, and in an ornate form is like the points of point-lace.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An ornamental tooling like lace.
Examples
“In all the bedrooms the dressing-tables were covered with dentelle de”
“Préfèrent voir le ciel dans la pierre en dentelle.”
“The town, climbing the hill, assumed the proportions of a mighty citadel; the forest tree-tops were prismatic, emerald balls flung beneath the illumined Merveille; and the Cathedral was set in a daffodil frame; its aerial _escalier de dentelle_, like Jacob's ladder, led one easily heavenward.”
“Linen is generally sewn with linen-thread, but Fil à dentelle and the Fil d'Alsace are very good substitutes.”
“Finer cottons should be used for the finer stuffs, such as embroidery cotton (Coton à broder D. M.C) Nos. 6 to 200, [A] and lace thread (Fil à dentelle D. M.C)”
“Fil d'Alsace D. M.C in balls Nos. 30 to 70, or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos.”
“Cordonnet 6 fils D. M.C Nos. 15 to 30, or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos. 25 to”
“MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D. M.C in balls Nos. 30 to 70, or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos. 25 to 50.”
“-- We advise our readers to work this charming pattern, in unbleached Fil à dentelle D. M.C No 50, because it imitates the appearance of old lace better than any other material.”
“Fil d'Alsace D. M.C Nos. 50 to 100 or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos. 50 to”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dentelle’.
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window dressing
chemise, gossamer, tweed, pleat, fold, cuff, button, shirttails, ascot, cummerbund, velvet, silk and 104 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Jane Eyre
abigail, sanguine, chancel, bourne, peremptorily, parley, unwonted, fagging, convolvuli, tarry, insuperable, execrations and 190 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2358 more...
yarb ...a sumptuous work entitled
Dis Quiet, or The Devil's Kitchen in
full polished tree calf, filt in compartments,
crimson lettering-pieces, dentelles, all
edges uncut...
- Peter Reading, Inter-City, from Fiction, 1979 Jun 26, 2008
reesetee A "lacy" border pattern on a leather book binding Feb 20, 2007