Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A coarse large-patterned lace without a net ground.
- n. See gimp1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Originally, a lace made of cords of a certain stoutness, each composed of several threads laid side by side, or of a strip of stuff or of parchment (see cartisane), and wound completely with thread. These cords were either arranged so as to touch one another and be sewed together often enough for solidity, or were maintained by means of brides or bars.
Wiktionary
- n. A kind of lace.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called
bars orbrides .
Etymologies
- From French guipure, from guiper ‘to cover with silk’. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, from guiper, to cover with silk, of Germanic origin; see weip- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At Proenza Schouler, a hot lava stripe ran across a guipure lace T-shirt, and at Alexander McQueen, Sarah Burton crafted a dress covered with feathers painted to resemble monarch butterflies.”
“And at Louis Vuitton, designer Marc Jacobs showed revealing sultan pants and long skirts in black guipure lace coyly woven with the house's initials.”
“Getty Images Marc Jacobs used Swiss-made 'guipure' lace in this dress, which will retail for $4,200 this fall.”
The Wall Street Journal: New Life for the Historic Art of Lace-Making
“Getty images Marc Jacobs used Swiss-made "guipure" lace in this dress, which will retail for $4,200 this fall.”
The Wall Street Journal: Lace on the Runway and the Red Carpet
“Whether parading to the White House in an Isabel Toledo wool guipure ensemble or perched on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" couch in a yellow J. Crew cardigan and bold print blouse, she continues to make colorful, fashion-forward choices and she wears them with confidence.”
Brett Ashley McKenzie: Chicago Style: Looking Good Year-Round Takes Confidence, Not Cash
“Up close, the First Lady's yellow Isabel Toledo sheath and matching jacket revealed an intricate wool guipure detail, a choice which reflected both her enviable confidence and her bold approach to fashion.”
Brett Ashley McKenzie: Michelle: And Tall Women the World Over Rejoiced
“Up close, the First Lady's yellow Isabel Toledo sheath and matching jacket revealed an intricate wool guipure detail, a choice which reflected both her enviable confidence and her bold approach to fas ... digg”
Brett Ashley McKenzie: Michelle: And Tall Women the World Over Rejoiced
“Up close, the First Lady's yellow Isabel Toledo sheath and matching jacket revealed an intricate wool guipure detail, a choice which reflected both her enviable confidence and her bold approach to fas ...”
Brett Ashley McKenzie: Michelle: And Tall Women the World Over Rejoiced
“Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that whiteness she beamed forth.”
“He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure which had descended to him from his own grandmother.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘guipure’.
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Additional 250 Spelling Words
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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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Logolepsy
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'no matter' matters
only the essence counts!
no matter
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An Intermediate Course of Random Pala...
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patterns
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
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Words that make you go hmmmm...
Interesting words you probably won't hear in your day-to-day.
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Textiles
A list from the 1911 edition of "Words: Their Spelling, Pronunciation, Definition, Application" by the Gregg Publishing Company.
aigrette, a la mode, Amazon, applique, armure, baize, balbriggan, balmoral, batiste, bedticking, bobbinet, buckram and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for guipure.
knitandpurl "I see my mother at her spinning wheel, surrounded by pewter and tapestries, engravings and leather-work. Muslin, lace, and guipure."
The Last Rendezvous by Anne Plantagenet, translated by Willard Wood, p 16 Jun 5, 2010
hernesheir (n): an old-fashioned lace in which the corded pattern was held in place by connecting threads; more recent lace of a large pattern made in imitation of the original; coarse thread for lace making. Jan 15, 2009