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Cluny lace

noun

  1. ivory-white bobbin lace made of strong linen or cotton thread.
  2. a machine lace, usually of cotton, copied from it.


Cluny lace

noun

  1. a strong heavy silk and cotton bobbin lace made at Cluny or elsewhere
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Cluny lace1

1870鈥75; named after Cluny, France
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Ian Palfreyman, 72, from Sawley, Derbyshire, has worked as a twist hand - somebody who operates machines - at Cluny Lace in Ilkeston, producing Nottingham lace for more than 56 years.

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鈥淵our clean shirtwaist,鈥 cried one of these helpers sympathetically, as she pulled a fragile bit of dimity and Cluny lace from under the taxi-cab where it had fluttered.

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The flavor of the Spanish bolero is very different from the Hungarian czardas, and who could confound the intoxicating swirl of the Italian tarantella with the stately air of cluny lace and silver rapiers which seems to surround the minuet?

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It's got sixteen yards of Cluny lace in the waist alone鈥攁nd such Cluny, too!

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So, if you really don't object鈥擶hen I went into town yesterday, I saw the sweetest cap of Cluny lace trimmed with lavender ribbon.

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