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Meanings of lacy in English

Having open interstices or resembling a web.

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Made of or resembling lace.

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Examples for "lacelike"
Examples for "lacelike"
1
The interior is exquisite with lacelike carvings inlaid with semiprecious stones.
Autobiography of a Yogi
2
Her bronze flesh was adorned with a lacelike tracery of beautiful design, in many tints.
Captured by the Navajos
3
Yes, that is what gives them their lacelike appearance.
The Insect Folk
4
The lower half was delicately worked in a lacelike pattern, revealing an immense amount of patient labor.
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and S...
5
Carved horses' heads, rude but recognizable, tuft the peak, and lacelike wood carving droops from the eaves.
Russian Rambles
Usage of lacy in English
1
No more thinking about his mother's lacy panties and long, long thighs.
Mr. Mercedes
2
Women protest against a possible ban of lacy underwear in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The Guardian
3
Dress up in that lacy black thing-youare seduction itself in it.'
Possessed
4
The new ferns were spread upon the earth like some lacy coverlet
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
5
She watched new ballycatter ice freeze in lacy patterns on her windows.
Dagmar's daughter
6
No, my lord, I mean to set them to sewing lacy smallclothes.
A Dance with Dragons
7
It buzzed the lacy arches and set the streamers of light fluttering.
A Tale of Time City
8
Becka wore a long lacy tunic, skinny jeans, and demure pink flats.
Perfect
9
She chose a simple sundress with a lacy shawl and pretty sandals.
The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year
10
Rosalind's hands crept up to check that her lacy cap sat straight.
The spurned viscountess
11
Brand-new topaz earrings set in lacy gold filigree dangled from her ears.
Bulletproof bride
12
The balloon still floated there, tied by its string to lacy wrought-iron.
IT
13
The lacy frills of her skirt tease her slim golden thighs, mesmerizing.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
14
Charity stood absently gazing down at the lacy garment on Ally's knee.
Summer
15
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
Leaves of Grass
16
It was so different from the froufrou, lacy gowns most girls picked.
Somewhere inside
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