lace-curtain [leys-kur-tn ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA 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....
Rita Kempley
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Define lacemakers. lacemakers synonyms, lacemakers pronunciation, lacemakers translation, English dictionary definition of lacemakers. n the act or process of making a delicate decorative fabric with cotton, silk, etc, woven in an open web of different s
Apparently they ran out of the good stuff and had to go full grandma-curtain-lace for King Louis XVI’s shitty tiered monstrosity. Young Catherine(1991) is actually a good movie, despite mostly shitty costumes. Check out Grand Duke Peter, who apparently can’t afford historically accurate neck...
KATHLEEN DESMOND STANG
Lace Curtain IrishP. L. OSullivan
Define lacemaking. lacemaking synonyms, lacemaking pronunciation, lacemaking translation, English dictionary definition of lacemaking. n the act or process of making a delicate decorative fabric with cotton, silk, etc, woven in an open web of different s
Farrell, Kathleen
While Irish American popular culture drew broad lines between working-class "shanty" lifestyles and those of a more respectable "lace-curtain" middle class during this era, the Buffalo evidence demonstrates these categories to be overdrawn and of almost caricature quality. In bringing the upwardly ...