lace-curtain

[ leys-kur-tn ]

/ ˈleɪsˌkɜr tn /

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adjective Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.

characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.

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How to use lace-curtain in a sentence

Miss Virginia allowed herself to be persuaded, and, securely entrenched behind the lace curtain, she levelled her glass.
The Pleasant Street Partnership|Mary F. Leonard
"It is comfortable," said Carrie, who was lifting a lace curtain and looking down into crowded Broadway.
Sister Carrie|Theodore Dreiser
Sometimes a loose lace curtain intervenes, but even this is unusual, the freest circulation of fresh air being quite necessary.
Due South or Cuba Past and Present|Maturin M. Ballou
With a lace curtain as a train for the queen then, and gold paper for a crown, they have all the trappings of royalty.
Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays|Annie Roe Carr

A bee flew in at the door, lighted on the lace curtain and clung there, making sprawly motions with his thread-like legs.
The Secret of the Storm Country|Grace Miller White

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