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单词 lace-runner
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lace-runner
lace-runner n. now historical (esp. in the Nottingham lace industry) a person employed to embroider lace designs onto a plain or partially patterned machine-made net fabric; (also) a person employed to sew lace onto another fabric.
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1811 Derby Mercury 4 Apr. (heading) Notice to Lace Runners.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vii. 225 The term embroidery does not seem to be much used in..the Nottingham lace-trade, most of those who work on net with the needle being termed ‘lace-runners’.
1914 Bull. U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics No. 146. 77 The skill of the lace runner consists in handling the lace carefully and running the material and the lace in such a manner that the machine is operated steadily without a break.
2000 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 13 Oct. 4 These ‘lace-runners’ ran out of luck in 1841, when Joseph Wragg worked out how to outline patterns on the net automatically.
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