lace-curtain

[ leys-kur-tn ]

adjective

, Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.

1. characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class:

   Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.

Example Sentences

Miss Virginia allowed herself to be persuaded, and, securely entrenched behind the lace curtain, she levelled her glass.

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"It is comfortable," said Carrie, who was lifting a lace curtain and looking down into crowded Broadway.

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Sometimes a loose lace curtain intervenes, but even this is unusual, the freest circulation of fresh air being quite necessary.

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With a lace curtain as a train for the queen then, and gold paper for a crown, they have all the trappings of royalty.

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A bee flew in at the door, lighted on the lace curtain and clung there, making sprawly motions with his thread-like legs.

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Related Words

• noble