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 Kentucky brook chuckled boisterously by the hay-camp, tumbling headlong over mossy logs and stones and a tangled lacery of drenched ferns.

From Diane of the Green Van by Dalrymple, Leona

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)

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

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

There were loaded pistols in the holsters, fine long weapons with polished walnut stocks inlaid with silver lacery and the initials 'C.W.', the Colonel's without a doubt.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.