Talk:Battenberg lace
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Nuptial gift? Might be my lack of English vocabulary. -- Jo Pol (talk) 19:14, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
That sentence was copied from the "Art of Modern Lace-making" (1891). Yes it's pompous! It means wedding. I'm not sure WHICH wedding, presumably a royal one. But I wanted to give the derivation to show that it had nothing to do with Battenberg, the place. These machine tape laces were all given silly grand names, to impress people. But unfortunately these names are still used. I'm not sure what to do about "nuptials". To say "Battenberg wedding" makes me ask "which wedding"? But "nuptial" shows that it is a grand wedding. It certainly was not given as a gift at that wedding! Joedkins (talk) 12:23, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
I've done some research and I don't know which wedding it was - there were a couple around the time. But I've rephrased the sentence to use wedding rather than nuptials. Joedkins (talk) 13:42, 11 December 2014 (UTC)