Obs. Also colbert-, colverteen. ‘A kind of open lace with a square ground,’ worn in 17th and 18th centuries.
‘A lace resembling network, of the fabrick of Monsieur Colbert, Superintendent of the French King’s Manufactures’ (Fop’s Dict., 1690).
1685. Factious Citizen (Fairholt, I. 323). A narrow diminutive colverteen pinner that makes them look so saint-like.
1690. Evelyn, Mundus Muliebris, 3.
| Twice twelve day Smocks of Holland fine, | |
| With Cambric Sleeves, rich Point to joyn, | |
| (For she despises Colbertine). |
1700. Congreve, Way of World, V. i. A yard of yellow Colberteen.
1713. Swift, Cadenus & V., 417. [She] Scarce knows what difference is between Rich Flanders lace and Colberteen.
1713. Guardian, No. 151. A plain muslin head and ruffles, with colbertine lace.
a. 1851. Joanna Baillie, Poems, To a Teapot. Through veiling folds of point or colberteen.
