bone-lace
[f. bone n. 5 c + lace.]
1. Lace, usually of linen thread, made by knitting upon a pattern marked by pins, with bobbins originally made of bone; formerly called bone-work lace; now largely superseded by bobbin-net.
| 1574 Hellowes Gueuara's Ep. (1577) 316 To see her..take her cushin for bone lace, or her rocke to spinne. 1666 Lond. Gaz. No. 94/3 Our Manufactures..of Points and Bone-laces. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 61 ¶4 [They] should be sent to knit, or sit down to Bobbins or Bone-lace. 1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 4 Its chief manufactures are the different kinds of woollen cloths, as also of bone-lace. |
2. attrib. and in comb., as bone-lace-edging, bone-lace-maker.
| 1634 Simp. Reasons in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 178 Davison a bonelace-maker. 1883 Daily News 26 June 5/7 An Innish⁓macsaint body-trimming and a bone-lace edging. |