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lace
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /le?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.
Noun
lace (countable and uncountable, plural laces)
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his las.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)
- (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (cord):
- (for a shoe): shoelace
- (for a garment): tie
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).
Verb
lace (third-person singular simple present laces, present participle lacing, simple past and past participle laced)
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
- When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To interweave items.
- The Gond […] picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.
- (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- ALEC, Acle, Alec, acle, alec, cale
Esperanto
Adverb
lace
- wearily
Related terms
- laca
French
Verb
lace
- first-person singular present indicative of lacer
- third-person singular present indicative of lacer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
- second-person singular imperative of lacer
Anagrams
- cale, calé
- cela
Latin
Verb
lace
- second-person singular present active imperative of laci?
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la.t?s?/
Noun
lace f
- dative/locative singular of laka
Portuguese
Verb
lace
- first-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
- first-person singular imperative of laçar
- third-person singular imperative of laçar
Spanish
Verb
lace
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lazar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lazar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lazar.
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laces
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?le?.s?z/
Noun
laces
- plural of lace
Verb
laces
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lace
Anagrams
- -clase, Salce, acles, alecs, claes, scale, selca
French
Verb
laces
- second-person singular present indicative of lacer
- second-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
Anagrams
- cales
- celas
Portuguese
Verb
laces
- second-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
- second-person singular negative imperative of laçar
Spanish
Verb
laces
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of lazar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of lazar.
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