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colbertine

colbertine noun: a kind of lace.

Noun

colbertine (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of lace.
    Synonyms:
    colberteen, Colbertine lace

colbertine meaning in Tamil

colbertine in Tamil

பின்னலாடை வகை

Synonyms of colbertine

Origin of colbertine

From Colbert + -ine. From Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV, who encouraged the lace manufacture in France.

Questions about colbertine

What does colbertine mean?
Colbertine means a kind of lace.
What is colbertine in Tamil?
Colbertine in Tamil is பின்னலாடை வகை. See Colbertine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is colbertine?
Colbertine is a noun.

Words near colbertine in the dictionary

  1. Colbert
  2. Colbert bump
  3. Colbert County
  4. Colbert sauce
  5. colberteen
  6. colbertine
  7. Colbertism
  8. Colbertist
  9. Colbertistic
  10. Colbertists
  11. Colberts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colbertine (page history and authors); colbertine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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