Cluny lace

American  

noun

1. ivory-white bobbin lace made of strong linen or cotton thread.

2. a machine lace, usually of cotton, copied from it.

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Cluny lace British  

noun

1. a strong heavy silk and cotton bobbin lace made at Cluny or elsewhere

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Etymology

Origin of Cluny lace

1870–75; named after Cluny, France

Example Sentences

Ian Palfreyman, 72, from Sawley, Derbyshire, has worked as a twist hand - somebody who operates machines - at Cluny Lace in Ilkeston, producing Nottingham lace for more than 56 years.

From BBC

“Your clean shirtwaist,” cried one of these helpers sympathetically, as she pulled a fragile bit of dimity and Cluny lace from under the taxi-cab where it had fluttered.

From Project Gutenberg

The flavor of the Spanish bolero is very different from the Hungarian czardas, and who could confound the intoxicating swirl of the Italian tarantella with the stately air of cluny lace and silver rapiers which seems to surround the minuet?

From Project Gutenberg

It's got sixteen yards of Cluny lace in the waist alone—and such Cluny, too!

From Project Gutenberg

So, if you really don't object—When I went into town yesterday, I saw the sweetest cap of Cluny lace trimmed with lavender ribbon.

From Project Gutenberg