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  malines

  noun

  Also maline a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.
• Malines
  Malines

  noun

  French name of Mechlin.

malines

¹ American  

[muh-leen, ma-leen] / məˈlin, maˈlin /

noun

1. Also maline a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.

2. Mechlin lace.

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Malines ² American  

[ma-leen, muh-leenz] / maˈlin, məˈlinz /

noun

1. French name of Mechlin.

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malines ¹ British  

/ məˈliːn /

noun

1. a type of silk net used in dressmaking

2. another name for Mechlin lace

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Malines ² British  

/ malin /

noun

1. the French name for Mechelen

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Etymology

Origin of malines

First recorded in 1840–50; after Malines

Example Sentences

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Playing-cards, snuffboxes, and fringed gloves elbowed a shelf of books, and a full-bottomed wig ogled a lady's headdress of ribbon and malines.

From Audrey by Mary Johnston

Her best plan will be to have a becoming shape covered with black tulle or malines, and a made bow attached to it to travel in.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

Her delay was due to the adjustment of her huge straw hat, piled with pink roses and tufts of blue malines.

From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

Another pattern is of Indian muslin Canezcu, embroidered and trimmed with malines, open and buttoned up in the back.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

On April 19, Gedeon piloted one of 38 B-26s from the 394th on a larger bombing mission that hit rail yards in Malines, Belgium, with “excellent to good” results, according to the group’s assessment.

From Washington Times ● May 25, 2014

Years dead is Belgium's great Cardinal Mercier, but his successor, Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, sang the Solemn Requiem Mass in sombre black and silver vestments.

From Time Magazine Archive

When in 1906 Cardinal Goossens died and he was promoted from Monseigneur to Archbishop of Malines, he, audacious in his faith, announced as his episcopal motto: Apostolus Jesu Christi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Proof: Crown Prince Leopold and Queen Elisabeth have been hissed and booed within the past year at Antwerp, Malines, Louvain.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when two wounded men from Malines appeared, we performed absolute miracles of compression in that long, brown train.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack