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tawdry lace
noun 
  1. (obsolete) A silk ribbon or string worn as a necklace in the 16th and early-17th centuries.
Etymology: Contraction of w:íthelthryth, St. Audrey's lace, with reference to Saint Audrey or íthelthryth/ííelíryí (d. 679), an Anglo-Saxon saint in whose honour a fair was held.

     
 
  

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