- Colbertine
- Colbertine 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.]
[1913 Webster]
Pinners edged with colbertine. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. --Young. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.