Cŏl'ber-tine, n.

n. [A lace resembling net-work, the fabric of Mons. Colbert, superintendent of the French king’s manufactures. Fop’s Dict. of 1690.] A kind of lace. [Obs.] “Pinners edged with colbertine.” Swift.

Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. Young.