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Colbertine   Listen
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Colbertine  n.  A kind of lace. (Obs.) "Pinners edged with colbertine." "Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine."





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... was the impostor; or, as in the case of Chatterton, possibly all may not be fictitious. It has been said that a great volume in MS., anterior by two hundred years to the seventeen books of Annius, exists in the Bibliotheque Colbertine, in which these pretended histories were to be read; but as Annius would never point out the sources of his, the whole may be considered as a very wonderful imposture. I refer the reader to Tyrwhitt's Vindication of his Appendix ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
 
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