a. Also lacey. [f. LACE sb. + -Y1.] Consisting of, or having the appearance of, lace.

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1804.  in Charlotte Smith’s Convers., I. 57. Eluding him, on lacey plume The silver moth enjoys the gloom.

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1823.  Galt, Entail, I. xv. 112. A thin mist, partaking more of the lacy character of a haze than the texture of a vapour.

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1848.  Sara Coleridge, in Q. Rev., March, 439. To display the lacy vein-work of a leaf apart from the cellular tissue.

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1883.  Miss Broughton, Belinda, I. I. ix. 157. Clad in one of those lawny, lacy gowns.

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