Colbertine

Colbertine
Colbertine Col"ber*tine, n. [From Jean Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV., who encouraged the lace manufacture in France.] A kind of lace. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Pinners edged with colbertine. --Swift. [1913 Webster]

Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. --Young. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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