different between lace vs orris

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)

1. (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.

2. (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

3. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

   • Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his las.

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4. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.

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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)

1. (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.

   • When Jenny's stays are newly laced.

2. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
3. (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.

4. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
5. (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
6. (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

1. wearily

Related terms

• laca

French

Verb

lace

1. first-person singular present indicative of lacer
2. third-person singular present indicative of lacer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
5. second-person singular imperative of lacer

Anagrams

• cale, calé
• cela

Latin

Verb

lace

1. second-person singular present active imperative of laci?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.t?s?/

Noun

lace f

1. dative/locative singular of laka

Portuguese

Verb

lace

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
3. first-person singular imperative of laçar
4. third-person singular imperative of laçar

Spanish

Verb

lace

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lazar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lazar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of lazar.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????s/

Etymology 1

Probably from iris, although the alteration of the vowel is unexplained.

Noun

orris (countable and uncountable, plural orrises)

1. Any of several irises that have a fragrant root, especially Iris × germanica.
2. The fragrant root of such an iris.
   • 1826, Samuel Adams, Sarah Adams, The Complete Servant, page 169,

     Drop twelve drops of genuine oil of rhodium on a lump of loaf-sugar ; grind this wel in a glass mortar, and mix it thoroughly with three pounds of orris powder.

   • 1998, Claire Kowalchik, William H. Hylton, Orris, entry in Rodale?s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs, page 406,

     Orris is the part of the florentine iris you don?t see — the rhizome. […] The ancient Egyptians and Greeks learned that the bland-smelling orris root would take on a remarkable fragrance if dried for at least two years.

   • 2000, Lady Sabrina, The Witch?s Master Grimoire, page 122,

     Next place your hair, the rose quartz, some of the orris root powder, and the candle drippings into the box.

Etymology 2

Contracted from orfrays, or from arras.

Noun

orris (countable and uncountable, plural orrises)

1. A type of gold or silver lace.
2. A pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked, especially one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.