lacy, a.
(ˈleɪsɪ)
Also lacey.
[f. lace n. + -y1.]
Consisting of, or having the appearance of, lace.
| 1804 in Charlotte Smith's Convers. I. 57 Eluding him, on lacey plume The silver moth enjoys the gloom. 1823 Galt Entail I. xv. 112 A thin mist, partaking more of the lacy character of a haze than the texture of a vapour. 1848 Sara Coleridge in Q. Rev. Mar. 439 To display the lacy vein⁓work of a leaf apart from the cellular tissue. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda I. i. ix. 157 Clad in one of those lawny, lacy gowns. |
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Add: Hence ˈlacily adv. rare.
| 1934 in Webster. 1981 N.Y. Times 5 May c11/3 It was a marvelously complex, lacily ornamented kind of music. 1990 P. Gosling in T. Heald Classic Eng. Crime (1991) 176 A plain sponge..lacily covered with swirls..of..icing. |