lace
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lace/leɪs/
▶noun
- 1 a fine open fabric of cotton or silk made by looping, twisting, or knitting thread in patterns, used especially as a trimming.
■ braid used for trimming, especially on military dress uniforms.
- 2 a cord or leather strip passed through eyelets or hooks to fasten a shoe or garment.
- 1 fasten or be fastened with a lace or laces.
■ tighten a laced corset around the waist of.
■ (as adj. laced) trimmed or fitted with a lace or laces.
- 2 entwine.
- 3 add an ingredient, especially alcohol, to (a drink or dish) to enhance its flavour or strength: coffee laced with brandy.
- 4 (lace into) informal assail or tackle.
'lace' also found in these Oxford entries:
bertha
- bobbinet
- bobbin lace
- Brussels lace
- Chantilly lace
- dentelle
- doily
- Dr Martens
- duchesse lace
- Dutch cap
- eyelet
- filet
- galloon
- goffer
- gros point
- guipure
- high-low
- Honiton lace
- Juliet cap
- lacemaking
- lace pillow
- lacework
- lacy
- latchet
- mantilla
- Mechlin
- needlepoint
- Nottingham lace
- oxford
- passementerie
- picot
- pillow
- pillow lace
- pointelle
- point lace
- Queen Anne's lace
- quilling
- rosaline
- Shetland lace
- spike
- tatting
- tawdry
- tea gown
- tie
- torchon
- tucker
- Valenciennes
- Vandyke
