guipure

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (to cover with silk).

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Noun

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guipure (countable and uncountable, plural guipures)

  1. 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. []

French

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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guipure f (plural guipures)

  1. guipure

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