point lace

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   lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern

   Synonymsneedlepoint

   Broaderlace

Questions about point lace

What does point lace mean?

point lace means "lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern".

What is another word for point lace?

Close synonyms include needlepoint. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is point lace a common word?

point lace is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.