Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lace.
- noun In bookbinding, a style of angular decoration, which in its simplest form is like a row of saw-teeth, and in an ornate form is like the points of point-lace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bookbinding) An ornamental tooling like lace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun bookbinding An
ornamental tooling likelace .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Préfèrent voir le ciel dans la pierre en dentelle.
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In all the bedrooms the dressing-tables were covered with dentelle de
Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington
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The town, climbing the hill, assumed the proportions of a mighty citadel; the forest tree-tops were prismatic, emerald balls flung beneath the illumined Merveille; and the Cathedral was set in a daffodil frame; its aerial _escalier de dentelle_, like Jacob's ladder, led one easily heavenward.
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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-- We advise our readers to work this charming pattern, in unbleached Fil à dentelle D. M.C No 50, because it imitates the appearance of old lace better than any other material.
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D. M.C in balls Nos. 30 to 70, or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos. 25 to 50.
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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Linen is generally sewn with linen-thread, but Fil à dentelle and the Fil d'Alsace are very good substitutes.
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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Finer cottons should be used for the finer stuffs, such as embroidery cotton (Coton à broder D. M.C) Nos. 6 to 200, [A] and lace thread (Fil à dentelle D. M.C)
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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Fil d'Alsace D. M.C Nos. 50 to 100 or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos. 50 to
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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Fil d'Alsace D. M.C in balls Nos. 30 to 70, or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos.
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
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Cordonnet 6 fils D. M.C Nos. 15 to 30, or Fil à dentelle D. M.C Nos. 25 to
Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868
reesetee commented on the word dentelle
A "lacy" border pattern on a leather book binding
February 20, 2007
yarb commented on the word dentelle
...a sumptuous work entitled
Dis Quiet, or The Devil's Kitchen in
full polished tree calf, filt in compartments,
crimson lettering-pieces, dentelles, all
edges uncut...
- Peter Reading, Inter-City, from Fiction, 1979
June 26, 2008