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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[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.

Noun.

A kind of lace worn by women.

colbertine ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) A kind of lace.

Pinners edged with colbertine. — Swift.

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