Meanings
plural guipures
- countableuncountableA kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
[…] it happened actually to be a gray toque of draped velvet, trimmed with antique guipure, and a tall ostrich plume dyed the same shade of violet as her dress.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 5441 more example
Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat.
1855, “Mantillas and Shawls”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, volume XLVI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Abraham H. See, 106 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 578
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*wīpaną“to wind, wrap”
- Frankish*wīpan“to wind, wrap”
- Frenchguipure
- Englishguipure
Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”), ultimately borrowed from Frankish *wīpan (“to wind, wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wind, wrap”). Related to English wimple.
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Polish gipiura
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