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单词 cluny lace
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Cluny lace


noun

ivory-white bobbin lace made of strong linen or cotton thread.
a machine lace, usually of cotton, copied from it.

Origin of Cluny lace

1870–75; named after Cluny, France

Words nearby Cluny lace

clunk, clunker, clunkhead, clunky, Cluny, Cluny lace, clupeid, clupeoid, Clurman, Clusium, cluster
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Example sentences from the Web for Cluny lace

  • Tufik's gift proved to be a small linen doily, with a Cluny-lace border!

    Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions|Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • We were hungry; so we spread out the shoebox lunch on one of the Cluny-lace covers and ate it, mostly in silence.

    Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions|Mary Roberts Rinehart

British Dictionary definitions for Cluny lace

Cluny lace

noun

a strong heavy silk and cotton bobbin lace made at Cluny or elsewhere
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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