lace
IPA: ɫˈeɪs
noun
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. ᵂᵖ
- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. ᵂᵖ
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
verb
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
- (transitive) To interweave items.
- (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
- (transitive, figuratively) To intersperse or diversify with something.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
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Examples of "lace" in Sentences
- The collar has a lace ruffle.
- He bedecks the room with lace.
- The people embedded the laces into the curtains.
- Crochet lace is an application of the art of crochet.
- In laced birds the lacing should be clear and distinct.
- Convincing a spider to spin lace is far more difficult.
- In laced birds, the lacing should be clear and distinct.
- But a future without complicated Shetland lace is bleak.
- In another embodiment, lacing may replace the connect straps.
- Dress shirts had in ruffles of fine fabric or lace at the cuffs.
- A ribbon is tied in the front and laced through a loop attached to the blouse.
- The hem on the tops and bottoms of the dress and the arm socks were black lace.
- I've got cotton sox trimmed in lace from the Victorian Trading Co. that I wear to bed.
- If you did both ends and knit you'd have to graft, grafting in lace is not my strong point!
- I had invented what we called lace locks, and in the IV we did an elaboration on the theme.
- It struck me this morning that a large piece of lace is a deliberate construction of a series of lights and shadows.
- Additionally, I'm an 82-year-old widow in lace-up orthopedic shoes who spends a lot of time on the subway happily going about her business.
- Newspaper paragraphs will begin thus: "The lovely wearer of the lace is about thirty-four years of age, but looks much older – in fact, nearly as antique as her own flounces," etc., etc.