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Chantilly laces

Chantilly laces is the plural of Chantilly lace.

Meaning of Chantilly lace

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

Questions about Chantilly laces

What is Chantilly laces the plural of?
Chantilly laces is the plural of Chantilly lace.

Words near Chantilly laces in the dictionary

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

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