Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Laces collectively.
  • noun Lace-like work or embroidery.
  • noun An enlacement; an interlacement.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Lace or laces collectively.
  • noun Something interlaced.

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Examples

  • Jaypur marble, with their arabesqued cupolas and lacery in stone.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Modyun could make out a lacery of steps leading up the side of the cliff from the garden below -- if garden was what it was -- to the building above.

    The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971

  • A Kentucky brook chuckled boisterously by the hay-camp, tumbling headlong over mossy logs and stones and a tangled lacery of drenched ferns.

    Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

  • There were loaded pistols in the holsters, fine long weapons with polished walnut stocks inlaid with silver lacery and the initials 'C.W.', the Colonel's without a doubt.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • It was a fragile appearing lacery of bridges, winking dots of light.

    Missing Link Frank Patrick Herbert

  • On the sequestered slopes of the low mountain valleys green mosses once more carpeted the earth, buttercups and dandelions peeped pale golden eyes from the ground, in the teeming crevices of the high promontories delicate green and crimson lichens wove a marvellous lacery, and wherever the sun poured its encouraging springtime light beauteous small star - and bell-shaped flowers burst into an effulgence of pale rose and glistening white bloom.

    The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

  • The summer was now well advanced, and the foliage was so thick as to form an impenetrable lacery.

    The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy Anonymous

  • There was a sisterhood of lilies at the gate and a ribbon of asters on either side of the broad walk, and a lacery of fir trees on the hill's edge beyond the house.

    Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

  • There was a sisterhood of lilies at the gate and a ribbon of asters on either side of the broad walk, and a lacery of fir trees on the hill's edge beyond the house.

    Rainbow Valley 1908

  • Then, she became aware, beyond peradventure of doubt, that the white lacery of silk, molded to her slender form and interwoven with heavy threads of gold, was supremely becoming.

    Making People Happy Thompson Buchanan 1907

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