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It turns out that the answer to the question is "yes". Saul Schleimer and I needed this result for a paper that we just finished writing, so we ended up sorting it out. The full argument is written down in Lemma A.6 in the Appendix of this paper, so what follows below is an outline.

Take a sequence of closed curves $C_i$, which limits to $\lambda$ in the measure topology. This sequence has a subsequence (which I will still call $C_i$) limiting to $\lambda' \supset \lambda$ in the Chabauty topology. Now, each $C_i$ is contained in the Chabauty limit of a sequence of triangulations $T_{i,j}$. This means that one can take a representative triangulation $T_{i,j(i)}$ that is very close to $C_i$, where "very close" can be quantified (say, closer than distance $1/i$) because the Chabauty topology is metrizable. Now, the sequence $T_{i,j(i)}$ will converge to a lamination $\lambda'' \supset \lambda' \supset \lambda$.

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It turns out that the answer to the question is "yes". Saul Schleimer and I needed this result for a paper that we just finished writing, so we ended up sorting it out. The full argument is written down in Lemma A.6 in the Appendix of this paper, so what follows below is an outline.

Take a sequence of closed curves $C_i$, which limits to $\lambda$ in the measure topology. This sequence has a subsequence (which I will still call $C_i$) limiting to $\lambda' \supset \lambda$ in the Chabauty topology. Now, each $C_i$ is contained in the Chabauty limit of a sequence of triangulations $T_{i,j}$. This means that one can take a representative triangulation $T_{i,j(i)}$ that is very close to $C_i$, where "very close" can be quantified (say, closer than distance $1/i$) because the Chabauty topology is metrizable. Now, the sequence $T_{i,j(i)}$ will converge to a lamination $\lambda'' \supset \lambda' \supset \lambda$.