Crossword-Solution: DENTELLES
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZEMEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DENTELLES (5)
Mesdames les Broderies-- "Le Poincts, Dentelles, Passemens, Qui par une vaine despence, Ruinoient aujourd'hui la France"-- call an indignation meeting.
One of them hotly demands what punishment shall be meted out to the court for such treatment-- "Dites moi je vous prie, Poincts, dentelles ou broderies, Qu'aurons nous donc fait à la cour," etc.
TAPE GUIPURE, BOBBIN-MADE.--(Genoa.)] Most of these laces are enumerated in a _jeu d'esprit_, entitled "La Révolte des Passemens," published at Paris in 1661.[134] {41}In consequence of a sumptuary edict against luxury in apparel, Mesdames les Broderies-- "Les Poinctes, Dentelles, Passemens Qui, par une vaine despence, Ruinoient aujourd'huy la France"-- meet, and concert measures for their common safety.
Dentelles de Moresse, Escadrons de Neige, Dentelles de Hâvre, Escrues, Soies noires, and Points d'Espagne, etc., march forth in warlike array, to conquer or to die.
Alors les points de Gênes, de Raguse, ni d'Aurillac ni de Venise n'étoient point connus et on dit qu'au sermon elle mangea tout le derrière du collet d'un homme qui etoit assis devant elle." On what strange events hang the connecting threads of history! By 1626 foreign "dentelles et passements au fuseau" were declared contraband.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1986).