lacery

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The designs range from the most familiar, delicate lacery to a remarkable lamp studded with bizarre, irregular pieces of brown-green glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

A faint light, however, struck upward and brought out the lacery of the after standing rigging.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

Then, she became aware, beyond peradventure of doubt, that the white lacery of silk, molded to her slender form and interwoven with heavy threads of gold, was supremely becoming.

From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison

There was a sisterhood of lilies at the gate and a ribbon of asters on either side of the broad walk, and a lacery of fir trees on the hill's edge beyond the house.

From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

The summer was now well advanced, and the foliage was so thick as to form an impenetrable lacery.

From The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy by Anonymous