The name of an Italian town in the province of Naples, used attrib. in Sorrento edge, edging, lace, orange, work (see quots.).
1856. Mrs. Pullan, Lady’s Dict. Needlework, 25. Sorrento Edge [in Point Lace]. Ibid., 28. Sorrento Lace.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2246/2. Sorrento-work. Fret carving, done by a jig-saw.
1882. Caulfeild & Saward, Dict. Needlework, 453/1. Sorrento edging, used in modern Point Lace.
1896. Daily News, 24 Dec., 3/2. The Neapolitan, or Sorrento orange…. Its exterior, however, is not smooth, but rather rough and unprepossessing, and its skin thick.
