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

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

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie

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 Daddy-Long-Legs by Webster, Jean

“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 Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman by Sharp, Annabel