| 单词 | lace woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslace woman lace woman n. now historical a woman who makes or deals in lace. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > one who lacemaker1589 lace man1598 lace woman1616 lace weaver1617 lace worker1706 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. v, in Wks. I. 549 Taylors, linneners, lace-women, embroyderers. View more context for this quotation a1732 J. Gay Distress'd Wife (1743) v. iv. 59 The Lace-woman's Bill..amounts to a hundred and fifteen Pounds. 1828 E. F. J. Carrington Confessions Old Maid II. iv. 172 I bought two or three yards of lace, by way of patronizing the old lace-woman, and pursued my way back to my cottage. 1929 W. F. Neff Victorian Working Women iii. 93 The misery of the poor lace women. 2010 C. Aslet Villages of Brit. 201 The invention of lace-making machinery, producing coarser but cheaper lace, sent the cottage industry into decline, what little the lace women could make often reduced further by greedy dealers. < as lemmas |
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