point-device
nounEtymology 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.
1
Historical A form of lace worked with devices.
2
Obsolete Anything uncommonly precise and exact.
- You are rather point-device in your accouterments, as loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.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: