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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