parchment-lace Obs. exc. Hist.
A kind of lace (lace n. 5), braid, or cord, the core of which was parchment. (See Mrs. Palliser's Hist. Lace, ed. 1902, 37–8, and quots. there given.)
| 1542–3 Privy Purse Exp. P'cess Mary (1831) 97, ij payr of Sleves wherof one of gold w{supt} parchemene lace. c 1570 Pride & Lowl. (1841) 19 Of xxs a yard, as I beleeve, And layd upon with parchment lace without. c 1645 R. Harper Mock-beggar Hall in Roxb. Ball. (1874) II. 133 No gold, nor silver parchment lace Was worne but by our nobles. [1678–9 Wardrobe Acc. Chas. II in Palliser (1902) 38 [19½ yds.] aureæ et argenteæ pergamenæ laciniæ.] 1900 Mrs. F. N. Jackson & E. Jesurum Hist. Lace 65 The parchment lace, as it was called..when silk, gold or silver thread was twisted over the thin strips of cartisane or cardboard which formed the main lines of the design. 1902 M. Jourdain & Alice Dryden Palliser's Hist. Lace 37. 1905 N. H. Moore Lace Bk. ii. 62 The English term for this old Guipure was ‘Parchment Lace’. 1930 P. G. Trendell Guide to Collection of Lace (Victoria & Albert Mus.) 6 In England there was frequent mention of ‘parchment lace’ in Queen Mary's reign. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 268/1 Parchment lace. 16th and 17th c.'s. A lace usually of gold or silver but occasionally of coloured silks. |