Valenciennes

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌvælənsiˈɛn/, /ˌvælənsiˈɛnz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /vəˌlɛnsiˈɛn/

Valenciennes

1. A town in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.

Valenciennes (uncountable)

1. A fine bobbin lace having the design made with the ground and of the same thread.
   • 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature, page 93:

     For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.

   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book IV, chapter 36:

     Rosamond contented herself without the very highest style of embroidery and Valenciennes.

• IPA^(key): /va.lɑ̃.sjɛn/

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Valenciennes f

1. Valenciennes