lacework
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- noun
- /ˈleɪsˌwɜrk/
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encaje
- The garden's trellis was covered in a beautiful lacework of delicate vines and flowers.
- delicate lacework
- lacework pattern
Examples
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Temples dripped into cones and turrets like sand castles on a beach, their white marble lacework glowing in the moonlight, seemed to rise up out of the rushing water.
Fiction book (1992) -
The lacework pattern of snow on the wrought-iron railing, and I remember my girl in the dusk of Christmas Eve walking across the worn red carpet to stand there at the window, watching the lights of the Big Town coming on in the purple-gray.
Fiction book (1991) -
Within, white streaks formed little lacework doilies.
Fiction book (1993) -
She covered the brandy-cask table with a fine piece of valley lacework.
Fiction book (1992) -
Lacework of trees against the sky, the swing of the road among groves and glades.
Fiction book (2000) -
The squat brown teapot on the table exhaled a fragrant ghost of bergamot over the eggshell-white cloth with its fringe of crocheted lacework.
Fiction book (2000) -
The artist created a stunning lacework pattern that adorned the wedding dress.
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The museum displayed a magnificent lacework panel intricately woven with colorful threads.
Synonyms
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2.0
A thin decorative cloth made from threads in open patterns used on clothes
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Lace made with a square net and simple patterns
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9.9
A way of making small, pretty lace by hand with a shuttle or needle
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9.1
A handmade decorative cloth made by twisting thread wound on small wooden spools around pins on a pillow
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6.8
Decorative sewing done with a needle and thread
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3.6
Work made by sewing or knitting to make patterns on cloth like a quilt
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7.9
An open structure of threads or wires woven like a net
Decorative cloth made by twisting and braiding thread on a cushion marked with pins
Delicate cloth made by sewing with small needle stitches on a paper pattern
Decorative sewing where threads are pulled out of the cloth to make lace patterns
Decorative sewing like embroidery or lace that makes cloth look nicer
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Etymology
Lacework joins lace ('a delicate cloth with open, pretty patterns') and work ('something made'). So lacework means a made piece or pattern that looks like lace, which explains its thin, detailed, open design.