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

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)

How often had Carette and I sat watching that white lacery of the rocks and swum out through the tumbling green to see it closer still.

From Carette of Sark by Oxenham, John

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

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry