Colbertine

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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           Pinners edged with colbertine.           --Swift.
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           Difference rose between
           Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. --Young.
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