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lace

[lays] / leɪs /


NOUN
string used to connect
Synonyms


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"I come from Japan many times to Shetland for wool week because I love the sheep and the local people. I love Shetland lace knitting and spinning," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The actress marked the occasion by donning a stunning lace Schiaparelli gown featuring long sleeves and a high neckline.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

It was what we did for every birthday, and so it was tea hats and lace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

In a realistic 1870s monument for a member of the Piaggio family, a dead man’s widow, shown leaving the door of a tomb, is wearing an elaborate lace shawl and mourning through her sculpted eyelashes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The women follow immediately behind the hippopotamus wagon, dressed all in black and pressing elegant lace hankies to the corners of their eyes.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The director laces a 16th-century period drama with a series of mysteries in his latest film, which centers on a samurai who rebels against the local warlord.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Each hub brought together suppliers of laces, soles and fabric, as well as logistics firms that help to quickly turn designs into store-ready products and ship them out.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

Heading into the exhibition I was eager to see what 18th-century ribbons and laces if not frock coats and gowns would be displayed as ancillary objects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

On paper, the dialogue may seem stiff and silly, but Lewis laces these words with enough sorrow to fill the room.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

Maybe even the boots they have in the window with shiny black leather and thick, strong laces.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome

He cautioned, however, that the path forward was still laced with uncertainty about how markets would evolve around the technology.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

And Taylor Farms would certainly top the list for anyone glued to a toilet bowl lately, thanks to the company’s alleged indiscretion handling lettuce laced with the “explosive diarrhea” parasite.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

But as soon as he laced them up, he turned into France’s unstoppable weapon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Microplastics also get released into the environment when people use products laced with the particles.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

For a moment I studied my fingers, laced in the cross-handle knob.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The lacing of the back was so extensive, and I had nails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

To Brady, it’s such an extreme level of body control that it reminds him more of the Olympians lacing it up in Milan than the football players at the Super Bowl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

It also feels like a moment — to use a sports metaphor, which I’m not an athlete — that you’re lacing up your shoes.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025

He admits to targeting another summer or two as an England player, but doubts he will follow Anderson lacing up the boots into his fifth decade.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025

Jonos had finally gotten his breeches turned the right way round and was lacing them up the front.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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