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🧵 A heavy lace 👗 Decorated with lace
guipure

guipure

9.9
Made of heavy open lace with no net background
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡēpyo͝or/
translation icon : guipur
  • Her wedding gown featured beautiful guipure details along the sleeves and neckline.

Examples

  • Her guipure lace wedding veil was breathtaking!

  • They admired the guipure curtains that added elegance to the old-fashioned living room.

  • The designer chose a guipure dress for the runway show to highlight intricate lacework.

  • She wore a stunning guipure dress to the gala.

  • The designer chose a guipure dress for the runway show to highlight intricate lacework.

  • Her wedding gown featured beautiful guipure details along the sleeves and neckline.

  • She wore a stunning guipure dress to the gala.

Synonyms

lacy
vsguipure
1 3.2

Made of thin cloth with small open patterns

is heavier and more open, lacking a net background
lacelike
vsguipure
5.2

Having a thin, delicate pattern of many small holes

is a specific heavy open pattern without a net background

Surface Forms

guipure positive

Etymology

Guipure comes from French for that special type of lace, so when something is called guipure it means it is 'made of' or 'decorated with' that heavy, open lace. That's why a guipure dress or curtain shows clear decorative lace patterns instead of a net background.