LACED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laced mean? 

• LACED (adjective)
  The adjective LACED has 2 senses:

1. closed with a lace

2. edged or streaked with color

  Familiarity information: LACED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Closed with a lace

Synonyms:

laced; tied

Context example:

snugly laced shoes

Antonym:

unlaced (with laces not tied)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Edged or streaked with color

Context example:

white blossoms with purple-laced petals

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

“Bless me!” said the old woman, “how badly your stays are laced! Let me lace them up with one of my nice new laces.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But, on the contrary, their conversation was very grave, and filled out with many little bows, and opening and shutting of snuff-boxes, and flickings of laced handkerchiefs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They laced her into a sky-blue dress, which was so tight she could hardly breathe and so low in the neck that modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Streams might have laced the crater's walls, running toward its base.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)

Antarctica's bedrock is laced with rivers and lakes, the largest of which is the size of Lake Erie.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)

They laced the hydrogel with hydrating silk proteins that promote healing and regeneration, then added progesterone.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He was tricked out in his best; an immense blue coat, thick with brass buttons, hung as low as to his knees, and a fine laced hat was set on the back of his head.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I, who knew him well, could tell from his wan cheeks and his restless fingers that he was at his wit’s ends what to do; but no stranger who observed his jaunty bearing, the flecking of his laced handkerchief, the handling of his quizzing glass, or the shooting of his ruffles, would ever have thought that this butterfly creature could have had a care upon earth.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did any one, be it East End rough or West End patrician, intrude within the outer ropes, this corp of guardians neither argued nor expostulated, but they fell upon the offender and laced him with their whips until he escaped back out of the forbidden ground.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was finished by the Marquis of Queensberry passing his arm through Brummell’s and leading him off, while my uncle threw out his laced cambric shirt-front and shot his ruffles as if he were well satisfied with his share in the encounter.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)