'Colbertine' definitions:

Definition of 'Colbertine'

From: GCIDE
  • Colbertine \Col"ber*tine\, n. [From Jean Baptiste Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV., who encouraged the lace manufacture in France.] A kind of lace. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Pinners edged with colbertine. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. --Young. [1913 Webster]