colbertine, colberteen

[From M. Colbert, superintendent of the French Royal lace manufactories in the seventeenth century.] A kind of lace. "Instead of homespun coifs were seen Good pinners, edg'd with colberteen ." Swift : Baucis and Philemon , 140. col-chic-ě-æ, s. pl . [Lat. colchic ( um ), and fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ .] Bot.: A tribe of Melanthacese, type Colchicum (q. v.).