Hexagonal machine-made net fabric used in lacemaking.
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Examples for "bobbinet "
Examples for "bobbinet "
1 The lace manufacturers of Europe experienced a serious set-back in 1818 when bobbinet was first made in France.
2 It is a good article for collars and shirt bosoms; also, when much diluted, for thin white muslin and bobbinet .
3 Baby's Veil.-Baby'sveil, which should only be used in cold or windy weather, may be either a Shetland veil or made of bobbinet .
4 Bobbinet lace is better than the common netting for all of these purposes.
5 Super-extraordinary Pocket-Handkerchief, French cambric, trimmed and worked, in account with Bobbinet & Gull.
1 With a gesture of impatience he strode up to Miss Bobinet 's door and rang the bell.
2 The one resource lay in the bookcase that rose above the old-fashioned secretary in Miss Bobinet 's front hall.
3 The only word that got past the grizzled fringe that bordered Miss Bobinet 's shriveled ear was the last one.
4 When Nance was not listening to tirades against Susan up-stairs, she was listening to bitter complaints against Miss Bobinet down-stairs.
5 "Lida Purdy's a fool," said Miss Bobinet , crossly.
1 In bobbin net making; men working machines, 18s.
2 From this abstract, we may form some judgement of the importance of the bobbin net trade.
3 The bobbin net machine occupies little space; and is, from that circumstance, well adapted for a domestic manufacture.
4 The exports of bobbin net are in great part to Hamburgh, for sale at home and at Leipzic and Frankfort fairs.
5 Thus an additional facility was afforded for the construction of these bobbin net machines: and the conclusion was not difficult to be foreseen.
6 The principal part of the hand-machines employed in the bobbin net manufacture are worked in shops, forming part of, or attached to, private houses.
7 Bobbin net machinery now at work in the Kingdom
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