Chantilly lace

noun

A delicate kind of bobbin lace, known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail.

Meanings

nounChantilly lace (countable and uncountable, plural Chantilly laces)

plural Chantilly laces

  1. countableuncountableA delicate kind of bobbin lace, known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail.
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    After dinner they gathered round the large, bright coal fire, whose one neatly-cut log emitted a shower of sparkles at every touch of the poker,—talked of former times,— sipped some fine old port, with a cobweb dress as fragile and more precious than any blonde veil Chantilly ever produced,— and felt more and more convinced, that though the world was a very bad one, yet there were some few things in it worth living for.

    1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 138
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