lacy
/ˈleɪsi
/adjective (lacier, laciest)
Made of, resembling, or trimmed with lace: a lacy petticoat...
- Those frilly, lacy hearts of different shades of red, white and pink just didn't do it for me.
- It was a lacy, pink, frilly room complete with canopy bed and a window seat.
- All through elementary school she bought me frilly, lacy dresses and huge hair bows.
Derivatives
lacily
- Coarsely woven natural rugs serve as durable floor rugs, but lacily woven types made of delicate fibers should be used as wall hangings.
- It was a marvelously complex, lacily ornamented kind of music.
- This waterfall is relatively small, cascading lacily 30 feet down the mountain, but hikers climb up its side to reach Sky Pond and the fourth waterfall near there.
laciness
- Frost and snow are both frozen water crystals, and the laciness of each comes from the same two qualities: six-fold symmetry and an intricate branching pattern.
- There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern.
- With Cornus Florida, minimal pruning is the key - after all, the beauty of dogwood is its laciness.