lace
/leɪs/ verb C2- To fasten (something) with laces.
- To interweave items. · to lace one's fingers together
- To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material. · cloth laced with silver
- To intersperse or diversify with something.
- To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble a lace.
He/she/it laces · Past laced · Past participle laced · -ing form lacing
Verb forms
- Base form
- lace
- He/she/it
- laces
- Past
- laced
- Past participle
- laced
- -ing form
- lacing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Valentine in the extremity of her terror joined her hands,—for she felt that the moment had arrived to ask for courage,—and began to pray, and while uttering little more than incoherent words, she forgot that her white shoulders had no other covering than her long hair, and that the pulsations of her heart could be seen through the lace of her nightdress.
When her dishes were washed and her bread sponge set and her hens fed Marilla remembered that she had noticed a small rent in her best black lace shawl when she had taken it off on Monday afternoon on returning from the Ladies’ Aid.
It was the amethyst brooch, hanging to a thread of the lace by its catch!
“Anne Shirley,” said Marilla solemnly, “I’ve just found my brooch hanging to my black lace shawl.
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