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LACE. 23 dictionaries. 4 It was not till fasliion caused the passement to be made with a toothed edge that the expression of “passement dentele ” first appears. dn the acounts of Henry II. of France, and his queen, we have frequent notices of “ passement jaulne dantelle des deux costez,” 5 “ passement de soye incarnat dentelle d’un coste,” 6 &c. &c., but no mention of the word “ dentelle.” It does, however, occur, in an inventory of an earlier date, that of Marguerite de France, sister of Francis I., who, in 1545, paid the sum of “ vi livres pour soixante aulnes, fine dantelle de Florance pour mettre a des colletz.” 7 After a lapse of twenty years and more, among the articles fur nished to Mary Stuart in 1567, is “ Une pacque de petite dentelle 8 and this is the sole mention of the word in all her accounts. Fig. 8. fW\ Petite dantelle. 1598. Fig. 9. Petite dantelle. 1598. -• uttuwut*. ioyo. We have like entries in the expenses of Henry I V.’s first queen. 9 Gradually the “passement dentele ” subsided into the modern ‘ dentelle.” > a* 1 a pattern book ’ Polished at Montbeliard, in 1598, 10 ® rst nd designs for “ dantelles.” It contains twenty patterns, O an sizes, “bien petites, petites (Figs. 8, 9, 10, 11), moyennes, G grosses ” ( Fi g- ?), the term always applied to toothed edges. ^ Not in those of Rob. Estienne, 1549 ; Erere de l’Aval, 1549; or Nicot, 1606. Cotgrave has, “ Dentelle, small edging (and indented), hone-lace, or needle work.” In “ Diet, de l’Academie,” 1694, we find, ‘‘Dentelle, sorte de passement jour et a mailles tres fines ainsi nomine Parceque les premieres qu’on fit etoient dentelees.” Comptes de VArgentier du JRoi, 1557. Arch. Nat. K. K. 106. “ Passement de ( UC soio noire dentelle d’un coste'.” Msement blanc,” “ grise,” also occur. NT„tZ 9e ^ erie de Seine, 1556. Arch. at - K. K. 118. Marn2T e \ de U Mahon * Madame Bib XT ! A-rf 6 Fmncc ’ Sat ur du Soi. " K Nat ' E. Fr. 10,394, fol. 62. 8 “ Plus de delivre une pacque de petite dentelle qui eat estcz cousu en semble pour mettre sur les coutures des rideaux des ditz litzcontenant 80 aunes.” Rec. Off. Edin. This custom of trim ming the seams of bcd-curtains with a lace indented on both sides was common throughout Europe. 9 1577. “ Pour deux aulnes de passe ment d’argent a hautte dantelle pom mettre h ung renvers, au pris de soixante solz l’aulne. “ Pour uneaulne de dentelle pour fairt deux cornettes pour servir a la dict< dame, quatre livres.”—Cptes. de la Reim de Navarre. Arch. Nat. K. K.. 1G2. 10 Appendix.