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lacery
noun as in embroidery
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
"Wait five minutes and I'll go back with you," and in five minutes they were crunching through the lanes, all hard underfoot with frost that lay like snow, and white and gay with hedge-row lacery of spiders' webs in feathery festoons, and, up above, a crimson sun rising slowly through the mist-banks over the bare black trees.
Clothed in dripping lacery of leaves and flowers torn away by the beast’s leap from the spur, she galloped into the patio, and when she dismounted the vines still twined around her limbs.
A faint light, however, struck upward and brought out the lacery of the after standing rigging.
The designs range from the most familiar, delicate lacery to a remarkable lamp studded with bizarre, irregular pieces of brown-green glass.
Among the chief delights "of the ride, he found, are the things one sees on the way: "The tint and character of a leaf, the dreamy, purple shades of mountains, the exquisite lacery of winter branches, the dim, pale silhouettes of far horizons.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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