Lace

From Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus.

Full definition of lace

(countable and uncountable; plural laces)

(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.

Francis BaconOur English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces.
1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 2, She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, â€¦; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, â€¦—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

(countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

(transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
(transitive) To interweave items. (lacing one's fingers together)

1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 8, Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
cloth laced with silver