Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of a variety of machines used in the manufacture of lace.
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Examples
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During all these hours, during the coming and going of these crowds of fears, sorrows, memories, anticipations in Ramona's heart, all that there was to be seen to the eye was simply a calm, quiet girl, sitting on the veranda, diligently working at her lace-frame.
Ramona 1921
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"I do not think my father would let me," she answered, with her eyes cast down upon her lace-frame.
The Last Hope Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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"I do not think my father would let me," she answered, with her eyes cast down upon her lace-frame.
The Last Hope Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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During all these hours, during the coming and going of these crowds of fears, sorrows, memories, anticipations in Ramona's heart, all that there was to be seen to the eye was simply a calm, quiet girl, sitting on the veranda, diligently working at her lace-frame.
Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857
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Mélie, when she had washed her hands, took from where it lay beside the window her lace-frame, sat down in the broad daylight and worked.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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