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Point lace   /pɔɪnt leɪs/   Listen
Point lace

noun
1.
Lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern.  Synonym: needlepoint.






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"Point lace" Quotes from Famous Books



... and lackadaisical, dressed in the deepest black, with rather a battered black gauze hat and the air of a regular Melpomene. I am the reverse of all this, and without vanity the best-dressed woman wherever I go. Last night I wore a blue satin trimmed fully with magnificent point lace—light-blue velvet hat and feather, with an aigrette of sapphires and diamonds. Voila! Lord Jeffrey came up to me, and we had such a flirtation! When he comes to Ireland we are to go to Donnybrook Fair together: in short, having cut me down with his tomahawk as a reviewer, he smothers me ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various

... thin, delicate frame. A waistcoat of white silk, cut square in front, with two immense pockets, from one of which hung a watch, with an immense chain and multitude of seals, beating against breeches of buff cassimer, the legs of which were inserted in vast boots. A rich frill of English point lace, with ruffles to match, gave an air of magnificence to this toilet; the whole being surmounted with a powdered head-dress with open wings, like those of a sea-gull in a desperate storm. The result of all this toilette was such, that no one felt inclined to laugh, or even ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various



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