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Mechlin
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English
Proper noun
en @dated form of:Mechelen city c/Belgium.
Noun
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A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechelen, having a bobbin ground and designs outlined by thread or flat cord.
1725-8, Edward Young, Love of Fame, The Universal Passion, "Satire V: On Women", line 359-60
And if disputes of empire rise between / Mechlin, the queen of lace, and Colberteen.
IV “Only think, my dear, of my having got that frightful great rent in my best Mechlin so charmingly mended, before I left Bath, that one can hardly see where it was.
1891 196 I went to heaven People like the moth, / Of mechlin, frames, / Duties of gossamer, / And eider names.
Alternative forms
en mechlin Mecklin
en terms derived from toponyms