lace-paper

We want to admire the waves, and they drag us off to inspect the last new villa: we like the beach, and they bid us enjoy the gardens, brought every spring in lace-paper out of the florist's shop.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

I look at them, and recall with some irony those great round bunches in the shape of cauliflowers, which our florists sell in France, wrapped in white lace-paper!

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

We had white lace-paper on the shelves and we used drawn-work paper napkins.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

The twins, dressed exactly alike, walked in front, each carrying an enormous bouquet of cut flowers in a "lace-paper" holder.

McTeague 1920

They were stiff and formal things, as big round as a breakfast plate, and invariably composed of a half-dozen wired japonicas ornamented with a pretentious cape of marvellously wrought lace-paper.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

The twins, dressed exactly alike, walked in front, each carrying an enormous bouquet of cut flowers in a "lace-paper" holder.

McTeague 1899

"We have got beyond hearts and darts and lace-paper affairs; but cast your judicial eye over that table at all I have received to-day: books and music and boxes of candy and no end of flowers."

Cicely and Other Stories Sears Gallagher 1897

So she dressed as an old-fashioned lace-paper valentine.

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

It was an odd affair -- a white silk gown dotted with red hearts and bordered with dozens of old-fashioned lace-paper valentines, with their bright array of cupids and doves and flowers; and to May it was most becoming.

Cicely and Other Stories Sears Gallagher 1897

He insisted on decorating the table with rhododendron flowers, and placing on it every night four dishes of Moradabad metal work containing respectively six figs, six French plums, six dates, and six biscuits, all reposing on the orthodox lace-paper mats, and the moment dinner was over he carefully replaced these in pickle-jars for use next evening.

The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892