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running through it. It is also sometimes covered with bugles, beads or other glistening ornaments. The the seats of chairs, &c., is also called gimp; and in See also:

LACE (corresponding to Ital. merletto, trina; Genoese Pizzo; Ger. spitzen; Fr. dentelle; Dutch kanten; Span. encaje; the English word owes something to the Fr. lassis or laces, but both are connected with the earlier Lat. laqueus; early French laces were

lace See also:

WORK

work it is the firmer or coarser See also:

THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread which outlines the See also:

PATTERN

pattern and strengthens the material. (2) A shortened form of gimple (the O.E. wimple), the kerchief worn by a See also:

NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

nun around her See also:

THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat, sometimes also applied to a nun's stomacher.

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