guipure
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of guipure
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
“Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat.”
“[…] it happened actually to be a gray toque of draped velvet, trimmed with antique guipure, and a tall ostrich plume dyed the same shade of violet as her dress.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”), ultimately borrowed from Frankish *wīpan (“to wind, wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wind, wrap”). Related to English wimple.
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