| 单词 | silver lace |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilver lace a. Ornamental braid used for trimming, esp. on military dress uniforms. Formerly also: †a piece or trimming of this (obsolete). Frequently in gold lace, silver lace: braid of this type formerly made of gold or silver wire, now made of silk or thread with a thin wrapping of gold or silver.In quot. 1633 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > ribbon or braid lace1548 cordon1578 lacing1593 galloon1604 galloon-lace1611 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > braid > specific parchment lace1542 lace1548 lacing1593 Naples lace1612 mignonette1721 struntain1793 French braid1809 lacet1822 Russia braid1825 Russian braid1839 soutache1856 mignardise1868 galloon1877 rickrack1880 Greek braid1894 vermicelli braid1904 tracing-braid1906 Paris binding1918 oak-leaf braid1934 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxxix Flatte golde of Dammaske with small lace myxed betwene of the same golde, and other laces of the same so goyng trauerse wyse, that the grounde lytle appered. 1592 R. Greene Thirde Pt. Conny-catching sig. F The Tayler had..so much gold lace, beside spangles, as valued thirteene pound. 1633 G. Herbert Peace in Temple ii Surely, thought I, This [sc. a rainbow] is the lace of Peaces coat. 1684 J. Dryden Prol. Univ. Oxf. in Misc. Poems 272 Tack but a Copper-lace to Drugget sute. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ii. 68 So without more ado they got the largest Gold Lace in the Parish, and walkt about as fine as Lords. 1787 J. O'Keeffe Farmer ii. iii But now a saucy Footman, I strut in worsted Lace. 1833 London Gaz. 28 June 1249/1 Admiral of the Fleet... Dress uniform... Scarlet cuffs, with two-inch lace round the top, and blue slash pointed flaps in the sleeve. 1867 H. W. Woolrych Lives Eminent Serjeants-at-Law of Eng. Bar I. 344 A curious rich cabinet of green velvet with silver lace. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 1 Jan. 7/2 The ‘worm’ of the Somerset Light Infantry..is a black thread woven into the gold lace on the officers' sleeves. 2015 Reading (Pa.) Eagle (Nexis) 4 July The mill..also makes gold braided cap bands, trouser stripes and sleeve lace for military dress uniforms. < as lemmas |
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