valenciennes
IPA: vʌɫˈɛnsiɛnz
Root Word: Valenciennes
noun
- A town in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
- A fine bobbin lace having the design made with the ground and of the same thread.
Examples of "valenciennes" in Sentences
- Lyon's first at home was against Valenciennes.
- They have an insertion and three rows _of valenciennes_.
- It is north west of Valenciennes and north east of Douai.
- By the 19th century valenciennes lace could be made by machine.
- He was appointed captain after the siege of Valenciennes in 1793.
- The short pagoda sleeves are trimmed with rows of _valenciennes_.
- De Bres was executed along with many other citizens of Valenciennes.
- In the summer of 2009, he signed for Valenciennes FC for three years.
- By the 1900s little of the famous lace was still made in Valenciennes.
- As Valenciennes was not a city neither would use the term 'twin city'.
- To use up flax yarn, women began to make the famous Valenciennes lace.
- Do you think valenciennes or filet would be better to trim the blankets?
- He became a shepherd for about six years working in Sebourg, near Valenciennes.
- A deep _valenciennes_, scolloped, forms a lapel down the body and the edges of the skirt.
- Mrs. Wheeler had come to the store and bought a lot of fine flannel and muslin and valenciennes.
- Jessica's gown was of white organdie, trimmed with tiny butterfly medallions and valenciennes lace.
- The collar is plaited; an embroidered insertion, and three rows of _valenciennes_, undulated like the trimming of the dress.
- The body and skirt have several rows of narrow _valenciennes_, three together at intervals, and so arranged as to form undulations.
- But father did not hear, and so behold Suzanna and her mother the next day at four o'clock in the afternoon in Bryson's drygoods store deciding upon a pink lawn and a soft valenciennes lace.
- There fell an hour of a never-to-be-forgotten day when the pink dress lay on the dining-room table, full length, finished, marvelous to little eyes with its yards and yards of valenciennes lace that graduated in width from very narrow to one broad band around the bottom of the skirt.