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Alencon lace   Listen
noun
Alencon lace  n.  See under Lace.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Alencon lace" Quotes from Famous Books



... decorative work, while in the reign of the ill-fated Louis XVI. it went completely out of fashion, Marie Antoinette affecting a much simpler style of lace. The Revolution finally caused the complete overthrow of Alencon lace, as of all fine art work in France. An attempt was made by Napoleon I. to revive it, but its glories had passed, and the hands of the workers had lost their cunning, the result being known as the worst type of lace, stiff and ugly in design and ...
— Chats on Old Lace and Needlework • Emily Leigh Lowes



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