Cluny lace
noun
ivory-white bobbin lace made of strong linen or cotton thread.
a machine lace, usually of cotton, copied from it.
Origin of Cluny lace
1870–75; named after
Cluny, France
Example sentences from the Web for cluny lace
Tufik's gift proved to be a small linen doily, with a Cluny-lace border!
Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions |Mary Roberts RinehartWe were hungry; so we spread out the shoebox lunch on one of the Cluny-lace covers and ate it, mostly in silence.
Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions |Mary Roberts Rinehart
British Dictionary definitions for cluny lace
Cluny lace
noun
a strong heavy silk and cotton bobbin lace made at Cluny or elsewhere