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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In needlework, a trimming made of a braid known as lacet braid fashioned into various designs with lace stitches.
Examples
“You must not, if you are so late, complain of me hereafter, when the lacet of my bodice troubles me, or the plaits of my hair refuse to keep their place, and so I delay thee unreasonably, as thou sayest, though it is all to honor thee; for would it not be unbeseeming for the help-meet of a worshipful”
“The term _broderie en lacet_ is applied to a new and very pretty style of embroidery, in which the outlines are made with silk braid, and filled in with point-lace stitches.”
The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc.
“After you have speculated frantically how you are to pass him, he solves the problem by calmly turning his horse off the edge and sliding to the next lacet below.”
“The sprigs, when made, are sewn upon a piece of blue paper and united on the pillow with "cutworks" or "purlings," or else joined with the needle by various stitches -- lacet, point, réseau, cutwork, button-hole, and purling.”
“Boxer moulant décoré d'un empiècement de vinyle et d'un lacet au creux des reins.”
“Hie lacet ThomasRuthal epifcopus Dunclmenfis, & regis H e n r i c r 'The.”
Internet Archive: Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent
“Hic lacet Alicia Tviivslow quondam dominella domine dudflc Lan - kaftrie, que obiit 17 Septemb.”
Internet Archive: Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent
“Corporibus lacet 1 Atque Animaitotius ip {a Proporro 'ft Anima y & dominatur corpore toto.”
Internet Archive: T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex
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