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Alençon definition

Alen·çon (ə len′sän′, -sən; Fr ȧ län sōn′)

noun

a needlepoint lace with a solid design on a net background

Etymology: after Alençon, town in NW France, where orig. made

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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my house in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia has this name. The original owner had a french name. My house was built in the very early 1900's.

Posted by anonymous 99 days ago.

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