I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lace sth with poison (= put poison in something )
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He laced the emperor's tea with poison.
shoe laces
velvet/net/lace etc curtains (= made of velvet, net etc )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress.
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He finds a woman in black lace , with piercing eyes and a mobile face.
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She chose a short black lace suit, tight-fitted with a scoop neckline.
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She wears a dark print dress with a black lace collar; her large hands rest on her lap.
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Stirling Cooper's Annalise Kjaer unpicked the body sleeves, using them as a pattern for new ones in black lace .
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It was in fact a butterfly, tawny orange like a tiger with a purple and black lace frill to its wings.
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She was here tonight, in a scarlet dress with black lace , a witty travesty of a flamenco dress.
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To their left, the finely wrought balustrade of a stone cantilevered staircase rose like a border of black lace .
fine
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Instead, I used what I consider an under value stitch - Brother fine lace .
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His hand slid up her thigh and found fine silk and lace in his way.
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But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage.
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Sometimes the lobes, as the divisions are called, are so intricately re-divided that they are commonly compared to fine lace .
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Proud owners carrying their birds in beautiful brandy bottle-shaped cages, decorated with fine lace covers to shade the birds.
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Silver Reed tell me that the fine gauge lace carriage has to be tuned to the needlebed.
white
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They were loose-legged and bright green with white lace .
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Intricate white lace draped the tables.
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She was dressed in dark blue velvet, a high white lace wimple on her head.
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On the mainland, the small beaches were faintly visible, the surf like a tiny ruffle of white lace .
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It buttoned almost to the neck, just showing a white lace top.
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She was in a white dress with lace stockings.
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His back looked comically enormous framed by the floral white lace of the curtains.
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She had put the glass plates on a green wicker table, with a sprinkle of white lace cloth.
■ NOUN
collar
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Carews in lace collars and bucket boots; in Ramillies wigs and steel breastplates.
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The child had worn a purple suit with a lace collar .
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It was bright pillar-box red with a white lace collar and cuffs.
handkerchief
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A friend fills hers with miniature whisky bottles for the men and lace handkerchiefs for the women.
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The Prime Minister belched into a lace handkerchief and began speaking over the slow chanting of his name.
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She wiped her eyes with a lace handkerchief and he caught the drift of her exotic scent.
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Miss Sadie enjoyed the bath story so much, she brought out a lace handkerchief to wipe her eyes.
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She eagerly took the mirror and the lace handkerchief he handed to her, and listened to his instructions.
■ VERB
trim
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She is wearing a linen blouse, trimmed with lace , and a full blue skirt that swings as she moves.
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Those early cards were works of art, elaborately painted and trimmed with lace , jewels, feathers, seashells and tassels.
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I would have bought you a new slip, of satin, trimmed with lace , or embroidered with roses.
wear
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Besides, not everyone wore shoes with laces .
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He was wearing outsize boots without laces .
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Twenty minutes later she stood in front of the mirror wearing the fragile lace undies which were also the result of her impulse-buying.
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Moderators still continue to wear the gaiters and lace when there is no rule to say they must.
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He was wearing more lace than the Lady Francesca!
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She was older than her brother and she wore a black lace cap over her grey hair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lace wedding veil
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I was very pleased with the result and my friend thought it looked like fashion lace .
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It is possible to knit a bias strip of mesh lace to use as a collar.
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My arms and chest exploded with tiny laces of pain when I moved the weights the way he instructed me.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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You can lace up tight for the next couple of weeks and try to act normal.
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She wears black shoes that lace up .
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I laced up the Docs and went for a walk in the hills behind Gallanach.
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Miguel said as he laced up .
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His boots are laced up like a clarinet with knotted string.
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Costumers are fixing her hair, adjusting her breastplate and lacing up the back of her leather minidress.
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The newest styles hark back to the Seventies; wedge-soled styles which lace up the leg.
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The Rockets can make lacing up their sneakers look so hard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dave laced up his running shoes and ran off.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He sits on the grass lacing stiff boots into a wreath of effort and breath.
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He then put the shoes on and laced them up.
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Loops and spurs of railroad track laced it all together.
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Smoke lay heavy on the far side of the water, laced eerily with threads of light from the blaze.
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While Brown touted initiatives created in his tenure, some of the speech was laced with hyperbole.