"lace pillow" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lace pillows [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lace pillow (plural lace pillows)
  1. A cushion used in making hand-wrought pillow lace.
    Sense id: en-lace_pillow-en-noun-gWS-MAjB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1865, \"Devonia\", The Honiton Lace Book:",
          "text": "a small soft pincushion, which had better have a tongue so that it can be pinned to the lace pillow and shifted at pleasure",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1899, A. T. Quiller-Couch, The Ship of Stars, Chapter 2:",
          "text": "His grandmother had lost her lace-pillow, and after searching for some time, he found it lying out in the square. But the pins and bobbins were darting to and fro on their own account, at an incredible rate, and the lace as they made it turned into a singing beanstalk, and rose and threw out branches all over the sky.",
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          "ref": "1904, Samuel L. Goldenberg, Lace:",
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          "ref": "1907, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, The New Missioner, Chapter 18:",
          "text": "\"Oh, yes, alvays,\" was the phlegmatic response of Mrs. Landvetter, as she adjusted the pins in the lace pillow on her lap.",
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          "ref": "1904, Samuel L. Goldenberg, Lace:",
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          "ref": "1907, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, The New Missioner, Chapter 18:",
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