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driz

driz noun: lace.

Noun

driz (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, slang) Lace.
    • One old lady used to give 3s. for three yards of driz, and it was well enough understood, without no words, that a pint of brandy was part of them three yards.1851, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, page 387

Questions about driz

What does driz mean?
Driz means lace.
What part of speech is driz?
Driz is a noun.

Words near driz in the dictionary

  1. driving winds
  2. driving-wheel
  3. driving-wheels
  4. drivingly
  5. drivings
  6. driz
  7. drizzlable
  8. drizzle
  9. drizzle-drozzle
  10. drizzle-drozzles
  11. drizzleable

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