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Valenciennes|valɑ̃sjɛn|
Also 8 Sc. Valentians.
[See def.]
1. The name of a town in northern France, celebrated for the manufacture of lace, used attrib. in Valenciennes lace (see quot. 1858). Also Comb.
1717Lady G. Baillie Household Bk. (S.H.S.) 214 For narow valentians lace at 11s. 1854Greenwood Haps & Mishaps 120 There is also a class engaged in weaving Valenciennes lace, of a beautiful quality. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Valenciennes-lace, a rich lace which has a six-sided mesh formed of two threads partly twisted and plaited, the pattern being worked in the net. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlew. 507/2 In Belgium there are six centres for Valenciennes lace making.
2. ellipt. A variety of lace originally manufactured at Valenciennes; a ruffle or the like made of this.
1764W. Varey in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) I. 270, I shall be obliged to you for four pair of Valenciennes, as good as people wear when they dress, but not too deep. 1801M. Edgeworth Angelina iii, Eight and twenty [shillings]..is really nothing for any lace you'd wear; but more particularly for real Valenciennes. 1859Reade Love me Little (1888) 169 ‘Well! does not every lady wear lace on her nightgown?.. What is that on yours, pray?’ ‘A little misery of Valenciennes, an inch broad.’ 1905E. Glyn Viciss. Evangeline 99 Short sleeves ruffled with Valenciennes.
3. ‘A pyrotechnic composition, usually employed as incendiary’ (Cent. Dict. 1891). |