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

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

"This lends support to a theory," said he, "which has recently been advanced that all proteins tend to spread out on surfaces and when they do so they all have a similar lacelike pattern."

From Time Magazine Archive

In lacelike prose, with just enough homely obtrusions to prevent his art from seeming precious, Updike tells of a young man's epiphany.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pa-� Song Gird on the pa-�, garment tucked in one side, Skirt lacelike and beauteous in staining, That is wrapped and made fast about the oven.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright