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English
Proper noun
Mechlin
- Dated form of Mechelen. (city in Belgium)
Noun
Mechlin (uncountable)
- A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechelen, having a bobbin ground and designs outlined by thread or flat cord.
- 1725-8, Edward Young, Love of Fame, The Universal Passion, "Satire V: On Women", line 359-60
- And if disputes of empire rise between / Mechlin, the queen of lace, and Colberteen.
1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, , 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:[…] “Only think, my dear, of my having got that frightful great rent in my best Mechlin so charmingly mended, before I left Bath, that one can hardly see where it was.
a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “I went to heaven”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 196:People like the moth, / Of mechlin, frames, / Duties of gossamer, / And eider names.