单词 | lacery |
释义 | laceryn. Something made up of interlaced elements; lacelike work; a lacelike pattern. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > openwork > [noun] openwork1583 lacework1675 tracery1827 lacery1847 honeycomb1924 1847 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 663/1 A loose lacery of unobtrusive jasmine and vine-weed. 1893 I. Burton Life R. F. Burton II. 66 The flutings of the open-work are delicate in the extreme, and the general effect is a lacery of stone. 1903 Munsey's Mag. 28 954/1 There were huge corded masts, festoons of ropes, delicate lacery of creeper and tendril, all interwoven and overlapping in fantastic profusion. 1967 Bks. Abroad 41 240/2 A series of filigree poems which resemble the silver lacery of Yemenite silversmiths. 1986 P. Conroy Prince of Tides xix. 403 The she-owl..flew through a lacery of fabulous dreams, through air voluted and perfumed with language. 2015 S. Shannon Mime Order 390 A spider's web, strung among the foliage, had been transformed to a silver lacery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847 |
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