Chantilly lace

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Noun

Chantilly lace (countable and uncountable, plural Chantilly laces)

  1. (of fabric) a delicate kind of bobbin lace, known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail
    • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 138:
      After dinner they gathered round the large, bright coal fire, whose one neatly-cut log emitted a shower of sparkles at every touch of the poker,—talked of former times,— sipped some fine old port, with a cobweb dress as fragile and more precious than any blonde veil Chantilly ever produced,— and felt more and more convinced, that though the world was a very bad one, yet there were some few things in it worth living for.