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Example sentences for "gold lace"

  • Breeches are both very full and fairly tight, the latter edged with a purfling of silk or gold lace as well as the sides, the former shape tied either above or below the knee with a large silk bow with falling ends.

  • Quilting and pleating were ably combined with the braiding, and we see the clever adaptation of straw patterns sewn on (a feature of the late 16th century), which harmonised with the gold braidings or gold lace, or resembled the same effect.

  • They were fastened with a large rosette of gold lace or ribbon on the front, and the latchets were set back to show an open side.

  • The fronts were set with large rosettes of silk and silver or gold lace, the heels varied much in height, that mostly favoured being a large, low heel.

  • With that they set off down a long hall, the king first, and the man in gold lace next, and, last of all, Barney with the three little creatures following.

  • In a moment it opened and there stood a man, all in gold lace, looking out at him.

  • When the king saw that, he began to laugh, and the man in gold lace began to laugh.

  • And standing against the wall, stacked behind the bundles of gold lace, were swords--dozens of swords.

  • Armorel opened one of them, and, finding that it contained a packet of gold lace and a pair of gold epaulettes, she left them undisturbed.

  • A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace.

  • Gold lace, a kind of lace, made of gold thread.

  • You see some sort of gold lace on it, and on the hilt of his sword.

  • She was not regarding him at all, not attending to what he had said, her face was very white, she was clutching the bit of gold lace in her hand, and her wide-open eyes were staring at something above his head.

  • The head was covered with a small, pretty turban, wound round with gold chains, or gold lace; numerous thin tresses of hair stole from underneath, falling down to the hips.

  • Somers, as he noticed a "foul anchor" on his shoulder, and a band of gold lace on his sleeve.

  • The cap, which he now held in his hand, was decorated with a band of gold lace, and bore on its front the appropriate naval emblem.

  • Two stripes of gold lace one-half inch wide on sleeves.

  • Two stripes of gold lace, half and quarter-inch, on sleeves.

  • A gold foul anchor on collar or shoulder-knot and one stripe of gold lace on sleeves.

  • Four one-half-inch stripes of gold lace on sleeves.

  • In two days all mankind appeared closed up in bars of gold lace.

  • Whoever durst peep abroad without his complement of gold lace was as scandalous as a ----, and as ill received among the women.

  • Resolving therefore to rid his coat of a huge quantity of gold lace, he picked up the stitches with much caution and diligently gleaned out all the loose threads as he went, which proved to be a work of time.

  • The officers of the 13th Somerset Light Infantry wore scarlet jackets at dinner, with high black silk waistcoats bordered with two inches of gold lace.

  • He holds his long wand at his side like a musket, and not trailing in his hand like a walking-stick, and he wears a soft shirt of white stuff, and a sleeveless coat buried in gold lace.

  • There is no one so important as an English captain--he is like a bishop in gold lace; but a German captain considers his passengers as one large happy family, and treats them as such, whether they like their new relatives or not.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gold lace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot live; fine form; fled from; gold and; gold and precious stones; gold brick; gold florins; gold ornaments; gold ring; gold would; golden color; golden crown; golden crowns; golden florins; golden hair; golden light; golden star; kind words; married state; nobody knew; not such; passing the; perfect wisdom; shaped nest; similar circumstances; that after