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English
Etymology
From Middle English poynt devise, from the Old French phrase *a point devise, with the participle taken as a noun; compare Old French a devis and Anglo-Norman en poynt devis.
Noun
point-device (uncountable)
- (historical) A form of lace worked with devices.
- (obsolete) Anything uncommonly precise and exact.
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , lines 389-91:You are rather point-device in
your accouterments, as loving yourself than seeming
the lover of any other.