LACE

Wild Word Friday!

When I was three years old, my mother bought me a beautiful pink dress with LACE at the neck and sleeves and tucked into the layered skirt. I remember loving that dress – until the first time I put it on. It was SO PICKY. Ow ow ow! My poor mom. She and Dad didn’t have much money, and I don’t want to think about how much that dress cost, but, bless her heart, she didn’t make me wear it. I’ve been forever grateful. Since then, I’ve had a little better relationship with LACE, and on a visit with our daughter when she lived in Brussels, Belgium, I fell in love with LACE.

As lovely as LACE is – even the word sounds lovely to me – it has a rather unlovely word history.  The word LACE came into the English language from the Latin word laqueus, a noose, snare or trap. In Old French the word morphed into laz and from there to Middle English as las and is “second cousin” to the English word lash. Hmmm, I think I’ll stick to the haute couture version, a delicate netting used to decorate garments  and fabrics.

Do you like LACE?

Blessings!

Sue

(Some information from Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language. Photographs from Wikipedia.)