guipure

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I have just had it from Howell and James:--guipure, they call it.

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  1. noun A coarse large-patterned lace without a net ground.
  2. noun See gimp1.

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  • Galliano also worked in some lovely dresses, such as a red satin strapless fastened to a multistrand pearl choker and a white guipure and wool shirred-bodice dress. —  The latest WWD Headlines
  • I have just had it from Howell and James:--guipure, they call it. —  The Fitz-Boodle Papers
  • Then there was a white satin dress with white satin sleeves and a sash worn crosswise over the shoulders, the whole ornamented with silver guipure which shone in the sun. —  Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
  • She wore a pink crepon dressing-gown, with cream guipure lace at the neck and wrists. —  A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus
  • One black silk dress, handsomely trimmed with jet guipure and lace ... ... —  A Simpleton
 

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  1. French, from Old French, from guiper, to cover with silk, of Germanic origin; see weip- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French guipure, guipure, gimp: see gimp.
 

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/giˈpjur/
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