brussels lace
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- fine lace with a raised or applique designType of lace
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Brussels lace
an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.
From the entry Brussels.
Bone lace, Brussels lace
etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc.
From the entry Lace.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54