guipure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiːˈpjʊə/

Noun

guipure (countable and uncountable, plural guipures)

1. A kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 611:

     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. […]

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ghippure (“trimmings”), a derivative of guiper, from Old French guiper (“to cover with silk”), from Frankish *wīpan (“to wrap”), cognate with Old High German wīfan (“to twist”), Middle Dutch wīpen (“to crown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡi.pyʁ/

Noun

guipure f (plural guipures)

1. guipure

Further reading

• “guipure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.