Definition of "lacey"

Skirts of white muslin, with pretty frills and lacey trimmings that fall in soft folds and ruffles around one's feet, are mighty dainty things for the summer girl--but is there a colder sound than that of a starched white petticoat in the dead of winter?

1901, Helen Follett Stevans, The Woman Beautiful‎

She was dressed in a lacey gown, a size too large for her.

1914, Virginia Brooks, Little Lost Sister‎

Michael Brown’s stainless-steel simulation of a cracked mirror freezes an act of anarchy into a lovely, lacey web.

2008 July 11, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times‎