Meanings of lace insertion in English

Joanna received him in state, with Arthur Alce's teapot and her best pink silk blouse with the lace insertion.

Mr Peter drew up a cream linen blind that was one mass of lace insertion, and apologised anew for his unseemly costume.

Then she turned her eyes away quickly, for his gaze seemed greedily endeavoring to pierce through the lace insertion covering her neck and shoulders.

Most of them were ladies in brown-silk dresses cut with square yokes, with lace insertion, and dotted veils, who refused to have the windows raised.

I couldn't stand for throwing together a fifteen-cent kidney stew while wearing, at the same time, a $150 house-dress, with Valenciennes lace insertion.

If the tablecloth has lace insertions, it must on no account be put over satin or over a color.

The secretary wrapped himself in a blue domino with lace insertions, then, bending over, he whispered in the ear of the Great Detective: