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CIDE DICTIONARY

colbertine

CIDE DICTIONARY

colbertinen. [From Jean Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV., who encouraged the lace manufacture in France.].
     A kind of lace.  [1913 Webster]
    "Pinners edged with colbertine."  [1913 Webster]
    "Difference rose between
    Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine.
    "  [1913 Webster]

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