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guipure

UK/ɡɪˈp(j)ʊə/US/ɡɪˈp(j)ʊɹ/

guipure noun: a kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.

guipure: a kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh
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Noun

guipure (countable and uncountable, plural guipures)

  1. A kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
    • Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat.1855, “Mantillas and Shawls”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, volume XLVI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Abraham H. See, 106 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 578
    • […] it happened actually to be a gray toque of draped velvet, trimmed with antique guipure, and a tall ostrich plume dyed the same shade of violet as her dress.2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 544

Forms of guipure

pluralguipures

Origin of guipure

Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”), ultimately borrowed from Frankish *wīpan (“to wind, wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wind, wrap”). Related to English wimple.

Words that rhyme with guipure

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Questions about guipure

What does guipure mean?
Guipure means a kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
What part of speech is guipure?
Guipure is a noun.
How do you pronounce guipure?
Guipure is pronounced /ɡɪˈp(j)ʊə/ (UK).
What is the plural of guipure?
The plural of guipure is guipures.

Words near guipure in the dictionary

  1. Guinzadan Sur
  2. Guinée forestière
  3. Guion
  4. Guiping
  5. Guipos
  6. guipure
  7. guipures
  8. Guipuzcoan
  9. Guipuzcoans
  10. Guipúzcoa
  11. Guirl

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