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- noun Plural form of
lacer .
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Examples
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They would fly at about the 50,000 foot level above an airport and be armed with lacers or infrared jammers that could zap shoulder-launched missiles.
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The speed-lacers on my boots used to rip out the hems on my longer skirts yes, I wear boots with skirts.
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So I ran up the street to my neighborhood's Williams Sonoma shop to get the baster (I ditched my old one last year) and lacers (did not have any) and twine (was out too), necessary to roast my chicken the Julia way (with a lovely French method of trussing and with continuous basting).
Seattle Bon Vivant: 2004
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He had been body-servant to both General Clarke and his father, and, old as he was, bent nearly double and dim of sight, his fingers were skilled for lacers and laces, for buckles and ribbons.
The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon
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-- Tight lacers will have to pay the penalties of which they little dream.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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I was still clumsily fumbling with my lacers (my fingers have ever been all thumbs when there is any dainty task to be performed) when I heard a rush of soft, padded feet, and down the corridor behind me, in response to that clear whistle, bounded a great dog.
The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon
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You would not have thought they were thinking at all as they sat on the broad brick steps, holding their chins in their right hands, left hands twisting their puttee lacers.
The Boy Scouts on a Submarine Captain John Blaine
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-- Tight lacers will have to pay the penalties of which they little dream.
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Yorke had laid out my dress for me and looked to the lace ruffles and lacers, so that I had only to jump into it and let him tie me up, and I was ready.
The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon
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With exceptional beam quality and superior pulse intensity this innovations in ultrafast lacers will enable researchers to further their important work in chemistry, physics and Biology.
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