Valenciennes
See also: valenciennes
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Valenciennes
- A town in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
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Valenciennes (uncountable)
- A fine bobbin lace having the design made with the ground and of the same thread.
- 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature, page 93:
- For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book IV, chapter 36:
- Rosamond contented herself without the very highest style of embroidery and Valenciennes.
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