Definition of Colbirtine

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.]

Pinners edged with colbertine.
Swift.

Difference rose between
Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine.
Young.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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