passementerie

Borrowed from French passementerie, from French passement (“decorative lace”).

• IPA^(key): /pæsˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/, (non-anglicized) /pɑsˈmɒ̃nt(ə)ɹi/

passementerie (countable and uncountable, plural passementeries)

1. A decorative piece of lace or other cloth on clothes.
   • 1919. Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 5

     Mrs Hurstpierpoint bent thoughtfully her eyes to the somewhat "phallic" passementerie upon her shawl.

2. Trimmings consisting of braids, cords, beads, tinsel, etc.

• “passementerie”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “passementerie”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “passementerie, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• IPA^(key): /pas.mɑ̃.tʁi/ ~ /pɑs.mɑ̃.tʁi/

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passementerie f (plural passementeries)

1. passementerie

• “passementerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012