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  • noun A person who makes lace.

Etymologies

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lace + maker

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Examples

  • The next tour I gave the customers commented that the daughter of a friend of theirs in Scotland was an award winning lacemaker.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Synchronicity and Six Degrees of Separation 2010

  • With Virubov, I had been sitting on a bench near the wicket-gate of his hut, as intermittently he had screwed his lecherous eyes in the direction of the stout, ox-eyed lacemaker, Madame Ezhov, who, after disposing of her form on a bank hard-by, had fallen to picking lice out of the curls of her eight-year-old Petka

    Through Russia 2003

  • Yards upon yards of lace Aunt Emmie crocheted, the Clover Leaf pattern, the Sea Shell, Acorn, the Rose, and if a bride-to-be had no silver, the lacemaker was content to take in exchange a pat of butter, eggs, or well-cured ham.

    Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

  • He wore such a dandy suit of pure white, and his hatband so exactly matched his sash, that I felt certain I was close upon some tender romance, for surely it was some dark-eyed lacemaker who had embroidered this impossible hatband and evolved the improbable sash!

    Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

  • He was a lacemaker from Uncle Rilo's house, of dubious repute and called Besugito

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

  • The lacemaker took a sip from a glass, standing, and began to talk in

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

  • With Virubov, I had been sitting on a bench near the wicket-gate of his hut, as intermittently he had screwed his lecherous eyes in the direction of the stout, ox-eyed lacemaker, Madame Ezhov, who, after disposing of her form on a bank hard-by, had fallen to picking lice out of the curls of her eight-year-old Petka Koshkodav.

    Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

  • There were also Reboul, the baker; Hibley, the working-tailor; Gonzetta, the shoemaker; Durand, the joiner; Marchand, the lacemaker; Voileau, the sail-maker;

    Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891

  • He wore such a dandy suit of pure white, and his hatband so exactly matched his sash, that I felt certain I was close upon some tender romance, for surely it was some dark-eyed lacemaker who had embroidered this impossible hatband and evolved the improbable sash!

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • _Little Bacchus_; there also Jeannetæ the hurdy-gurdy player and Catherine the lacemaker were regular frequenters.

    The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

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