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HISTORY OF LACE.

allowed to make all sorts of “ passemcnts de dentelle sur l’orcilleraux fuseaux, aux epingles et a la main, d’or, d’argent, tant fin quofaux, de soye, de fil blanc et de couleur,” &c. They therefore appliedthe same terms to their different products, whatever the material.

The word “ passenient ” continued to be used till the middle of

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Graude damdle au point dcvant Taiguille. Montbeliard, 1598 .

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the seventeenth century, it being specified as “ passements auxfuseaux,” “passements a l’aiguille; ” only it was more speciallyapplied to lace without an edge. When with indented edge,it was so qualified, “passement a dentelle.”

Nor will the term “ dentelle ” be found in the earlier French