point-device
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English poynt devise, from the Old French phrase *a point devise, with the participle taken as a noun; compare Old French a devis and Anglo-Norman en poynt devis.
Noun
- (historical) A form of lace worked with devices.
- (obsolete) Anything uncommonly precise and exact.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], lines 389-91:
- You are rather point-device in
your accouterments, as loving yourself than seeming
the lover of any other.
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