Meaning of Chantilly lace | Babel Free

Definitions

a delicate kind of bobbin lace, known for its fine ground, outlined pattern, and abundant detail

countable, uncountable

Examples

“After dinner they gathered round the large, bright coal fire, whose one neatly-cut log emitted a shower of sparkles at every touch of the poker,—talked of former times,— sipped some fine old port, with a cobweb dress as fragile and more precious than any blonde veil Chantilly ever produced,— and felt more and more convinced, that though the world was a very bad one, yet there were some few things in it worth living for.”

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