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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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tace
English
Noun
tace (plural taces)
- Alternative form of tasse
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
- 1860 December 22, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch's Book of British Costume, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 39: July—December 1860, page 248,
- The passe-gardes we have mentioned are also clearly visible, and notice should be taken of the horizontal plates, called taces, extending from the breastplate to protect the hips. As we have seen in the last reign, two small pointed plates, called tuilles, are affixed by straps in the front to the lowest of the taces, so as to give a further protection to the thigh; and under them is visible a short tunic of mail, which, we thus learn, still continued in military use.
Anagrams
- CETA, Cate, acet-, cate
Italian
Verb
tace
- third-person singular present of tacere
Anagrams
- teca
Latin
Verb
tac?
- second-person singular present active imperative of tace?
Pali
Alternative forms
Noun
tace
- inflection of taca (“skin”):
- locative singular
- accusative plural
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta.t?s?/
Noun
tace f
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of taca
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?tat??e]
Verb
tace
- third-person singular present indicative of t?cea
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