London Gazette. 1677, Oct. 8-11.
Tyrannus, or the Mode. 1661.
It is written Colberteen, Colbertain, Golbertain, Colbertine.
Colberteen, a lace resembling network, being of the manufacture of M. Colbert, a French statesman.
A writer in Notes and Queries says: "I recollect this lace worn as a ruffle fifty years ago. The ground was square and coarse, it had a fine edge, with a round mesh, on which the pattern was woven. It was an inferior lace and in every-day wear."