driz

English

Noun

driz (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, slang) Lace.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, page 387:

     One old lady used to give 3s. for three yards of driz, and it was well enough understood, without no words, that a pint of brandy was part of them three yards.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary