lacis
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lacis (uncountable)
- A type of lace consisting of patterns darned on to net.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 122:
- he sought to accumulate the most exquisite specimens that he could find of textile and embroidered work, getting […] veils of lacis worked in Hungary point […]
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Etymology edit
From lacer.
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lacis m (plural lacis)
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- “lacis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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lacis