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• “Those who have travelled through Belgium only by train or car cannot appreciate the intimate and fascinating charm which characterizes the Flemish plains-strewn with monuments in stone whose facades recall the lacework that Flemish peasant women do on their lace pillows, sitting on the threshholds of their houses.”

  Maurice Maeterlinck - Banquet Speech

• “The sails consisted of three stripes of sailcloth or matting, united by a kind of lacework, thus forming one whole sail for light winds.”

  In the Eastern Seas

• “But a new book by retired University of Alberta professor Gordon Freeman says it is in fact the centre of a 26-square-kilometre stone "lacework" that marks the changing seasons and the phases of the moon with greater accuracy than our current calendar.”

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• “Running through everything these people thought or knew, like the vast root systems of grasses that extend deep beneath the surface, as intricate as the lacework of billions of spiderwebs, were spiritual filaments that guided behavior and nourished rich mythologies.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “An intricate net of supporting veins divides and subdivides their apparent fragility into a lacework of tiny panels, and some chance combination of light and angle has created a mosaic of gleaming gold scattered through the silver.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: South Uist

• “The red lace Marchesa gown she wore to the opening ceremony was an itchy-looking monstrosity -- whoever did the lacework should perhaps have gone to the Royal School of Needlework which did the lacework on Kate Middleton's wedding gown.”

  The Huffington Post: Yvonne Yorke: Prince William on Honeymoon As Controversial Diana Film Premieres in Cannes

• “Ms. Burton told vogue.com that her goal was to "marry traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Dress

• “The 112.8 million blogs and their participants, the hundreds of social bookmarking sites and their users, the dozens of social networking sites and their millions of members, and the numerous authority sites are intercon - nected in an intricate lacework of branches resembling the treelike projections of a neuron, called dendrites.”

  Why Blogs are the Brain of the World or, the Story of Write to Done | Write to Done

• “But Guarino Guarini's dome begun in 1667, in particular, has become famous throughout the world for its fabulously intricate lacework of stone arches.2.”

  The Guardian: Five of the best baroque palaces in Europe

• “It is compelling, also, hearing Burton talk about the duchess, and how she chose a shorter veil than is traditional because she didn't want to disguise the lacework.”

  The Guardian: Duchess of Cambridge wedding dress steals the show at Buckingham Palace

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