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  Also maline a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.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 Also maline a delicate net resembling tulle, originally made by hand in the town of Mechlin, Belgium.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

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Example Sentences

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malines Malines

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

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

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

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

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

His superiors liked him; soon, in 1877, made him professor of philosophy at the Petit Seminaire in the see of Malines the seat of Archbishop Goossens.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the latter who arranged the annual conversations at Malines, Belgium, the seat of his archbishopric, to which every June came many Anglicans to discuss and forward progress toward church unity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The youngest bell in the collection was cast in 1784 by another famed bellman, Van den Gheyn of Malines.

From Time Magazine Archive

He takes the Empress in a canal barge from Brussels to Malines and himself descends the subterranean vault of the Escaut-Oise canal, between St. Quentin and Cambrai.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

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