What is "lacelike"

Usage examples of "lacelike".

High in the atmosphere, perfect, tiny crystals that form about a minute piece of dust, each a lacelike work of fractal art.

Through the clear elastic window, the sprawling lacelike patterns of boulevards, plazas, and junctions glowed with the pale blue biolight of the wee hours.

The eyes were covered with a caul of lacelike skin, the nose was missing and the mouth was a lipless circle of dribbling flesh.

The spiral became honeycombed, enclosing the children in a glowing lacelike bell jar.

In another part of the keep, the dance continued, and high, spirited music wafted weakly, lacelike, down the halls.

Even the smallest device partook of the same feathery, lacelike design as the peat ship itself.

Their illuminations displayed, thirty feet above, a ceiling gorgeous with lacelike stone tracery and pendant bosses.

With him she studied fine ironwork, shaping metal into lacelike forms: between the Syth and the Pebbled Sea, Teraud was the best at it.

The oak wainscoting glowed golden with long and loving application of beeswax and turpentine even in this pallid early spring sunlight, while higher upon those same walls fanciful plasterwork ornamentation spread its delicate lacelike tracery against the darker cream of the lime-washed background.

Light from the moon shone through the latticework and spilled lacelike shadows over the bed and her bare skin.

The outer covering of the locket was fashioned of golden filigree, lacelike work of fine strands of twenty-two carat gold wire.

At one time it had been a beautiful home with its detailed lacelike spindle work.

Having searched the forest for signs of motion, his eyes had come to a slender break in the trees -- where, seeming to hover against the powdered dome of stars, there loomed the lacelike tracery of a Nefalian tower.

She indicated a narrow arched doorway, framed with exquisite wooden filigree and outlined in lacelike metal scrollwork.

I The neatly spaced ruins with their pitifully blackened gardens and skeleton trees continued for a considerable distance, eventually giving way to shrub-lined fields dotted with tall, I dome-capped structures-some connected by fantastic lacelike webs shimmering in the afternoon sun.