Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
lace .
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- adjective made of or resembling lace
Etymologies
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Examples
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And over the forest surged a sea of green life, the climbers of a thousand varieties, some that floated airily, in lacelike filaments, from the tallest branches others that coiled and wound about the trees like huge serpents; and one, the ei-ei, that was for all the world like a climbing palm, swinging on a thick stem from branch to branch and tree to tree and throttling the supports whereby it climbed.
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And over the forest surged a sea of green life, the climbers of a thousand varieties, some that floated airily, in lacelike filaments, from the tallest branches others that coiled and wound about the trees like huge serpents; and one, the ei-ei, that was for all the world like a climbing palm, swinging on a thick stem from branch to branch and tree to tree and throttling the supports whereby it climbed.
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The spiral became honeycombed, enclosing the children in a glowing lacelike bell jar.
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She could still see the lacelike white tracery it had left behind, more a memory than a scar.
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The branches overhead made lacelike patterns against the starlit sky.
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Evidence of her mothers artistic tendencies was everywhere, from the handmade velvet throw pillows piled on the dark red sofa to the walls hung with Jocelyns paintings, carefully framedlandscapes, mostly: the winding streets of downtown Manhattan lit with golden light; scenes of Prospect Park in winter, the gray ponds edged with lacelike films of white ice.
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The branches overhead made lacelike patterns against the starlit sky.
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She could still see the lacelike white tracery it had left behind, more a memory than a scar.
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Since the middle of the 18th century, Meissen's most popular pattern has been "Blue Onion," in which each piece is covered with a lacelike pattern of blue vines and flowers.
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She motions to a wrinkled and jagged band of green, dunks her wide brush into the glue-and-water jar, swings across the petals without flattening their lacelike circles.
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