Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An imitation Brussels lace.

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Examples

  • The machines were started at Nottingham in England, early in the nineteenth century, and were called bobbin-net, or point-net, or warp-net, machines, and the lace first made was often finished and enriched by hand.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1777, two workmen, Frost and Holmes, were both engaged in making point-net by means of the modifications they had introduced in the stocking-frame; and in the course of about thirty years, so rapid was the growth of this branch of production that

    Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

  • The stocking-frame had already, in a modified form, been applied to the manufacture of point-net lace, in which the mesh was LOOPED as in a stocking, but the work was slight and frail, and therefore unsatisfactory.

    Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

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