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lace englannista suomeksi

(senseid) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. (w)
c. 1620, (w), letter of advice to Sir (w)

Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.

(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp); and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,(nb..)—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
(RQ:Christie Autobiography)
A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. (w)

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A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
(RQ:Tasso Fairfax Godfrey of Bulloigne)
Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
(RQ:Spectator)
To fasten (something) with laces.
(RQ:Prior Alma)
To interweave items.
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
(RQ:Kipling Second Jungle Book) 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.
(quote-journal)
To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)
To intersperse or diversify with something.
(quote-journal) (The Weekend Sun)|location=Vancouver, BC|page=A6|passage=(smallcaps) opening the New Democrat government’s second legislative session Dec. 2 was a modest document featuring caution and pragmatism laced with a few tidbits of democratic socialism.
To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
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