lacinessn.
/ˈleɪsɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈleɪsinᵻs/ The quality, state, or appearance of being lacy. Also figurative.
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laciness1862
1862 Building News 4 July 6/1 The fine chequer-work and thready patterns that fill up the spaces..giving a certain laciness of aspect.
1895 Vogue Mar. 202 The effect of lightness, laciness and gleaming of red.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 9 July 4/2 Flowered silk, or embroideries, or chiffon, and laciness.
1947 Billboard 24 May 43/4 Cyril Ritchard as the foppish Tattle..plays his role with perhaps a shade too much laciness.
1988 S. Hoffman By Land, by Sea 54 Ice on the branch that ran through our pasture had thinned to laciness.
2015 Times 31 Oct. 9 Victoriana, with its prim high collars, its laciness and its love of the very, very white or very, very black.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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