Definitions | tawdry lace |
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- (obsolete) A silk ribbon or string worn as a necklace in the 16th and early-17th centuries.
Etymology: Contraction of w:íthelthryth, St. Audrey's lace, with reference to Saint Audrey or íthelthryth/ííelíryí (d. 679), an Anglo-Saxon saint in whose honour a fair was held.
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