guipure

Borrowed from French guipure, from guiper (“to cover with silk”), ultimately borrowed from Frankish *wīpan (“to wind, wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wind, wrap”). Related to English wimple.

• IPA^(key): /ɡiːˈpjʊə/

guipure (countable and uncountable, plural guipures)

1. A kind of bobbin lace that connects the motifs with bars or plaits rather than net or mesh.
   • 1855, “Mantillas and Shawls”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, volume XLVI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Abraham H. See, 106 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 578:

     Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 544:

     […] it happened actually to be a gray toque of draped velvet, trimmed with antique guipure, and a tall ostrich plume dyed the same shade of violet as her dress.

Inherited from Middle French guipure, guippure (“trimmings”), a derivative of guiper, from Old French guiper (“to cover with silk”), from Frankish *wīpan (“to wrap”), cognate with Old High German wīfan (“to twist”), Middle Dutch wīpen (“to crown”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡi.pyʁ/

guipure f (plural guipures)

1. guipure
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     C'était une femme de la quarantaine environ, à belles épaules, à nez busqué, à la voix traînante, et portant, ce soir-là, sur ses cheveux châtains, un simple fichu de guipure qui retombait par derrière, en triangle.

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   • 1880, Émile Zola, Nana‎^[2]:

     Elle portait les couleurs de l'écurie Vandeuvres, bleu et blanc, dans une toilette extraordinaire: […] puis, la robe de satin blanc, les manches de satin blanc, une écharpe de satin blanc en sautoir, le tout orné d'une guipure d'argent que le soleil allumait.

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• “guipure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012