Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See needlepoint.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See lace.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow.
WordNet 3.0
- n. lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern
Examples
“In this school was manufactured the point lace of the silver wedding-dress of Her”
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
“Very remarkable pieces of the different styles of point lace of Malines,”
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
“This includes every variety of needle-made or point lace made entirely without foundation, such as Venice and Spanish flat point and raised point, point de France, Alençon point, point de gaze, etc.”
“Dressed in black velvet, with point lace on her hair, and repeated at throat and wrists, she made me think at once of Romola and Dorothea Brooke.”
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
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