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

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

"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

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

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

From Ramona by Jackson, Helen Hunt