lacelike

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And at the back is a long white landscape, bordered by a tangle of trees with lacelike leaves.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013

He began to turn out plans for buildings whose distinguishing features are precast concrete coaxed into graceful curves and lacelike delicacy, a box-shaped podium for a base, a surrounding pool, a gemlike skylight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Connoisseurs know that in the lacelike stonework of this Chapel and in its cunningly carved oak chair stalls the English Gothic Style attained its richest and most intricate perfection.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the Cathedral of Chartres, delicate, lacelike, had been built in Hartford, Conn., it would probably by this time be a chipped and crumbling mass.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then it bursts into yellow bloom still finer, more feathery and lacelike.

From Ramona by Jackson, Helen Hunt