Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who mends or repairs lace; specifically, in lace-making, one who restores damaged meshes in machine-made net.
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Examples
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Your lace-mender is too good for you, but not good enough for me; neither physically nor morally does she come up to my ideal of a woman.
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No fire was there, however, and no fuel laid ready to light; the lace-mender was unable to allow herself that indulgence, especially now when, deprived by death of her sole relative, she had only her own unaided exertions to rely on.
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I enjoyed the surprise I should give; I enjoyed the triumph of my practice over his theory; and leaning over the table, and uttering the words slowly but with repressed glee, I said concisely — “She is a lace-mender.”
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I earned money a little, and this money I grave for lessons in the studies I have mentioned; some of it I spent in buying books, English books especially; soon I shall try to find a place of governess, or school-teacher, when I can write and speak English well; but it will be difficult, because those who know I have been a lace-mender will despise me, as the pupils here despise me.
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A lace-mender may make a good wife as well as a lady; but of course you have taken care to ascertain thoroughly that since she has not education, fortune or station, she is well furnished with such natural qualities as you think most likely to conduce to your happiness.
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No fire was there, however, and no fuel laid ready to light; the lace-mender was unable to allow herself that indulgence ....
The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912
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No fire was there, however, and no fuel laid ready to light; the lace-mender was unable to allow herself that indulgence ....
The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904
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"She's a simple lace-mender, -- I was a common cowherd," -- said Angus, grimly -- "Do you think those whom the world calls 'ladies' would make a friend of _me_?"
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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One day Mrs. Tristram told him that her beautiful friend, Madame de Cintre, had returned from the country; that she had met her three days before, coming out of the Church of St. Sulpice; she herself having journeyed to that distant quarter in quest of an obscure lace-mender, of whose skill she had heard high praise.
The American 1877
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The lace-mender was very grave, and looked rather sad as she bent her face over her tambour-frame.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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