Dictionary entry

Colbertine

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Col″ber‐tine (?), n. [From Jean Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV., who encouraged the lace manufacture in France.] A kind of lace.

Pinners edged with colbertine.

Swift.

Difference rose between

Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine.

Young.