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  2. Lace curtain and shanty Irish - Wikipedia

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    As lace curtains became commonplace in Irish-American working-class homes, "lace curtain" was still used in a metaphorical, and often pejorative, sense. In the early 20th century, James Michael Curley , a famously populist Boston politician who was called "mayor of the poor", used the term "cut glass Irish" to mock the Irish-American middle ...

  3. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 July 23

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    The radio comic Fred Allen once offered a capsule definition of "lace curtain": "They have fruit in the house when no one's sick." Like similar terms, "lace-curtain Irish," while denoting a certain level of financial achievement, has connotations that go well beyond mere prosperity.

  4. L'Orange (restaurant) - Wikipedia

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    The interior has "fantastical" wallpapers and white lace curtains, according to Neil Ferguson of Willamette Week. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The menu has included duck confit with black lentils , smoked sturgeon , wine- braised short ribs , gnocchi with squash and mushrooms in a pistachio -ginger sauce, and seasonal salads and vegetables. [ 5 ]

  5. Nottingham lace curtain machine - Wikipedia

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    The Nottingham lace curtain machine only has one warp, and the patterning threads are carried on a spool, not on a beam. The terms to describe the actions are the same as those used for a Leavers machine: rise, fall, right, left, sley, carriage, comb etc. [ 6 ] The lace is collected at the top, unlike the Pusher machine , where it is collected ...

  6. The Lace Curtain - Wikipedia

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    The Lace Curtain was an occasional literary magazine founded and edited by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce under their New Writers Press imprint. Both press and journal were dedicated to expanding the horizons of Irish poetry by rediscovering a native modernist tradition, publishing younger Irish poets who were working in modes that sat outside the mainstream and introducing innovative non ...

  7. United States Lace Curtain Mills - Wikipedia

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    United States Lace Curtain Mills, also known as the Scranton Lace Company Kingston Mill, is a historic factory building located at Kingston, Ulster County, New York. It was completed about 1903, and is a complex of three parallel brick buildings connected by hyphens. It operated as a textile manufacturing facility until 1951. [2]

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