Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lacebark , 3.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several types of
wood that has acoarse texture , but especially that from several varieties ofsycamore
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
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Examples
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: 35 AM lacewood asked: When you wrote Death of the Necromancer, did you already know you were going to write the Ships of Air trilogy, or have the ideas behind it in mind?
November 19th, 2006 lacewood 2006
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Highlights include a "gull-featured" entertainment center of bleached lacewood, Japanese ash and African mahogany accents in the master stateroom.
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The granite and lacewood entry, dominated by an old merchant's chest where shoes were stored, was one of many spaces which served to connect the visitor from the outside world with the inner heart of the villa.
Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992
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I did love the lacewood pine trees though, with their patchy beautiful bark.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Hi, folks ... turns out that the lacewood wouldn't bend properly without scorching (that's apparently a problem with figured wood and tight bends), so we settled on some nicely figured curly maple.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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A stack of lumber is made up of woods like bocote and lacewood.
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