guipure
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Etymology
Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”).
Pronunciation
Noun
guipure (countable and uncountable, plural guipures)
- A kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
- 1855, “Mantillas and Shawls”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, volume XLVI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Abraham H. See, 106 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 578:
- Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 611:
- it happened actually to be a gray toque of draped velvet, trimmed with antique guipure, and a tall ostrich plume dyed the same shade of violet as her dress. […]
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French guipure, guippure (“trimmings”), a derivative of guiper, from Old French guiper (“to cover with silk”), from Frankish *wīpan (“to wrap”), cognate with Old High German wīfan (“to twist”), Middle Dutch wīpen (“to crown”).
Pronunciation
Noun
guipure f (plural guipures)
Further reading
- “guipure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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