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VALENCIENNES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Valenciennes mean? 

VALENCIENNES (noun)
  The noun VALENCIENNES has 2 senses:

1. a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industryplay

2. a type of bobbin lace with floral patternsplay

  Familiarity information: VALENCIENNES used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VALENCIENNES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Valenciennes" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A type of bobbin lace with floral patterns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Valenciennes; Valenciennes lace

Hypernyms ("Valenciennes" is a kind of...):

bobbin lace; pillow lace (a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins; the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins)


 Context examples 


Not one of them but bore its two ankers of the right French cognac, or its bale of silk of Lyons and lace of Valenciennes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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