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# lacy

«lacy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made of lace, or decorated with lace (a fine fabric with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (lacy, lacier, laciest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made of lace, or decorated with lace (a fine fabric with patterns of holes). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/#m1)

2) Looking like lace: with a delicate pattern of holes or thin lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes clothes, curtains and tablecloths; in science and nature writing, frost, leaves eaten by caterpillars and snowflakes can look lacy. In stories it gives a delicate, pretty or old-fashioned picture. Phrases: lacy collar, lacy pattern, lacy frost.

### examples

- She wore a white dress with a lacy collar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/#x1)
- Frost made lacy patterns on the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/#x2)
- The caterpillars left the cabbage leaves lacy and full of holes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/#x3)
- Grandma's lacy curtains let in the sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/#x4)
- The fern had lacy green leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/#x5)
- Snowflakes look lacy under a magnifying glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/#x6)

### note

Comparison: lacier, laciest (y → i). From «lace» (drop the «e», add «-y»). Pronounced LAY-see.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lacy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lacy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.