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Colbertine

Colbertine \Col"ber*tine\, n. [From Jean Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV., who encouraged the lace manufacture in France.] A kind of lace. [Obs.]

Pinners edged with colbertine.
--Swift.

Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine.
--Young.

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colbertine

n. (context obsolete English) A kind of lace.