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Chantilly lace

Chantilly lace noun: a delicate kind of bobbin lace, known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail.

Noun

Chantilly lace (countable and uncountable, plural Chantilly laces)

  1. A delicate kind of bobbin lace, known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail.
    • After dinner they gathered round the large, bright coal fire, whose one neatly-cut log emitted a shower of sparkles at every touch of the poker,—talked of former times,— sipped some fine old port, with a cobweb dress as fragile and more precious than any blonde veil Chantilly ever produced,— and...1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 138

Forms of Chantilly lace

pluralChantilly laces

Questions about Chantilly lace

What does Chantilly lace mean?
Chantilly lace means a delicate kind of bobbin lace, known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail.
What part of speech is Chantilly lace?
Chantilly lace is a noun.
What is the plural of Chantilly lace?
The plural of Chantilly lace is Chantilly laces.

Words near Chantilly lace in the dictionary

  1. Chantignan
  2. Chantillies
  3. Chantilly
  4. chantilly cream
  5. chantilly creams
  6. Chantilly lace
  7. Chantilly laces
  8. Chantilly porcelain
  9. Chantilly porcelains
  10. Chantilly-Tiffanies
  11. Chantilly-Tiffany

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