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lady's laces † Also lady-laces. The striped garden variety of Phalaris arundinacea.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. iv. 5 The grasse called in Latine Gramen sulcatum, or Pictum: and by our English women, Ladies Laces, bicause it is stript or furrowed with white and greene strakes, like silke laces. 1611Cotgr., Aiguillettes d'armes, the hearbe, or grasse, called Ladies laces, white Cameleon grasse, painted, or furrowed grasse. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lady-laces, a sort of striped Grass. 1713J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 179 Painted Grass, or Ladies Laces. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 97, I..Tried through the pales to get the tempting flowers, As lady's laces, everlasting peas. |