Malinesn.
/maˈliːn/, U.S. /məˈlin/ 1.
a. In full Malines lace. = Mechlin lace n. at Mechlin n. 2a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > made or originating in specific place
Flanders lace1641
Flandersa1685
Honiton lace1688
Mechlin lace1689
Mechlin1701
Valenciennes lace1717
Valenciennes1801
Malines lace1830
Maltese lace1851
Alençon1857
Maltese1859
Binche1865
Maltese guipure1865
Valc1890
1830 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1954) XI. 371 Wearing a cap of malice Malines like a Woman!!!
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv. 10/2 To Teufelsdröckh the highest Duchess is respectable..but nowise for her pearl-bracelets, and Malines laces.
1842 W. M. Thackeray Confessions of G. Fitz-Boodle in Fraser's Mag. June 713/1 I thought she would not let the evening pass without talking of her Malines lace.
1850 Harper's Mag. Aug. 431/2 Another pattern is..embroidered and trimmed with malines.
1911 J. Masefield Jim Davis iii. 30 It contained a dozen yards of very beautiful Malines lace.
1912 Queen 13 Apr. 613/1 This coat..had long sleeves slit up at the wrist, and edged with white net bordered with Malines.
b. In full Malines net. A machine net originally designed to imitate the ground of Malines lace.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with open texture > net or mesh > for veils
tuxedo net1895
Malines1897
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 318/1 A 27 inch Maline net veiling..in black, brown, cream or navy blue.
1909 Daily Chron. 4 Mar. 4/5 Lady Anne Lambton was the wearer of Malines net, the skirt panelled with lace.
1921 Amer. Woman Jan. 15/2 Oh, isn't that big black maline hat the stunningest!
1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 12 Mar. (1970) 89 I dressed early this morning, in solid black, with my mantilla draped over my maline hat, and set out..for the Requiem Mass for King Paul.
1989 B. Paris Louise Brooks i. vi. 122 He had covered his camera lens with a black maline, a fine silk netting whose tiny holes acted as a retouching device.
2. A Belgian breed of the domestic fowl; a fowl of this breed. Also Malines fowl.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > types of
rumpkin1676
bantam1749
Jersey blue1758
Dorking1779
Plymouth Rock1806
Java1813
shack-bag1816
Negro fowl1835
creeper1847
Minorca1848
cuckoo fowl1850
Leghorn1850
Brahmapootra1851
Ancona1853
shanghai1853
Andalusian1854
Bolton bay1854
Corsican cock1854
jacinth1854
Minorca1854
spangle1854
yellow leg1854
Crèvecœur1855
sultan1855
Hamburg1857
Leghorn1857
Yokohama1865
Houdan1871
Langshan1871
Wyandot1881
sultan hen1882
silkie1885
Orpington1887
rock1889
silver-grey1889
Campine1892
Rhode Island Red1893
Faverolles1902
Rhode Island White1905
Malines1906
Rhode Island1914
Australorp1922
maranc1934
1906 E. Brown Races Domestic Poultry viii. 117/1 The birds which are known as poulets and poulardes de Bruxelles are entirely Malines.
1910 Encycl. Poultry II. 295 The Malines fowl is of the Asiatic type, and is large in size... There are two varieties—the Coucou and the white.
1938 T. Newman Princ. & Pract. Poultry Husbandry i. 23 The Maline..was the result of a cross between the Langshan and Campine, and the Antwerp Brahma.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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