Meaning & use
lacy
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Made of lace, or resembling lace in its fine, delicate, openwork pattern.
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She wore a lacy white blouse to the garden party.
Frost formed lacy patterns on the windowpane overnight.
A note on using this word
The word extends naturally from the fabric 'lace' to describe anything with a similarly intricate, openwork appearance, from frost to foliage.
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