laceとは

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /leɪs/
• 韻: -eɪs

名詞

lace (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 laces)

1. (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.^W
   • Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

     Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎^[1]:

     She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-216012-4:

     Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.^W
3. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)

     Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace.

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4. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.

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同意語

• (cord):
  • (for a shoe): shoelace
  • (for a garment): tie

派生語

• lacemaker

動詞

lace (三人称単数 現在形 laces, 現在分詞 lacing, 過去形および過去分詞形 laced)

1. (transitive) To fasten (something) with laces.
   • Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

     When Jenny's stays are newly laced.

2. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food または drink).
3. (transitive) To interweave items.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

   • Rudyard Kipling

     The Gond […] picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.

   to lace one's fingers together

4. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
5. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
   • Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704)

     I'll lace your coat for ye.

6. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.

   cloth laced with silver

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派生語

アナグラム

• ALEC, Acle, Alec, alec

Latin

動詞

lace

1. second-person singular present active imperative of laciō