Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who deals in laces.
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Examples
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"Have you run in debt to your abominable smuggling lace-woman?"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various
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She was, it seems, a "lace-woman, dwelling in Bell Alley in Coleman Street," and preaching on week-day afternoons in that neighbourhood, with occasional excursions to other parts of the city where rooms could be had.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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“lace-woman, dwelling in Bell Alley in Coleman Street,” and preaching on week-day afternoons in that neighbourhood, with occasional excursions to other parts of the city where rooms could be had.
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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