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lace pillow

lace pillow noun: a cushion used in making hand-wrought pillow lace.

lace pillow: a cushion used in making hand-wrought pillow lace
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Noun

lace pillow (plural lace pillows)

  1. A cushion used in making hand-wrought pillow lace.
    • a small soft pincushion, which had better have a tongue so that it can be pinned to the lace pillow and shifted at pleasure1865, "Devonia", The Honiton Lace Book
    • His grandmother had lost her lace-pillow, and after searching for some time, he found it lying out in the square. But the pins and bobbins were darting to and fro on their own account, at an incredible rate, and the lace as they made it turned into a singing beanstalk, and rose and threw out...1899, Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars, Chapter 2

Examples of lace pillow in a sentence

  • Honiton Application is made by working the pattern parts on the lace pillow and securing them to a net ground, separately made.1904, Samuel L. Goldenberg, Lace:
  • Landvetter, as she adjusted the pins in the lace pillow on her lap.1907, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, The New Missioner, Chapter 18:

Forms of lace pillow

plurallace pillows

Questions about lace pillow

What does lace pillow mean?
Lace pillow means a cushion used in making hand-wrought pillow lace.
How do you use lace pillow in a sentence?
Honiton Application is made by working the pattern parts on the lace pillow and securing them to a net ground, separately made.
What part of speech is lace pillow?
Lace pillow is a noun.
What is the plural of lace pillow?
The plural of lace pillow is lace pillows.

Words near lace pillow in the dictionary

  1. lace monitors
  2. lace paper
  3. lace papers
  4. lace piece
  5. lace pieces
  6. lace pillow
  7. lace pillows
  8. lace up
  9. lace-curtain
  10. lace-leaf
  11. lace-leafs

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