echellen.
Obsolete. rare.
? An arrangement of ribbons in the form of a ladder; a lacing of ribbons in front of the stomacher.
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1690 Songs Costume (1849) 188 Of ribbon, various echelles, Gloves trimm'd, and lac'd as fine as Nells.
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