Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Ornamental trimming for a garment, as braid, lace, or metallic beads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Edgings and trimmings in general, especially those made of gimp, braid, or the like: often made with jet or metal beads: as, jet passementerie; plain passementerie (that is, without beading). See
passement .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Trimmings, esp. of braids, cords, gimps, beads, or tinsel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
decorative piece oflace or other cloth onclothes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a decoration or adornment on a garment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was there that we first saw extraordinary dressmaker details - edging with beautiful "passementerie," along with beads, buttons, feathers and appliques on linen, velvet, wool, felt, leather, cashmere and silk.
Berks county news 2009
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In 1910, wrote Richardson, she already stood out for the unconventional sparseness of her rooms, for her disdain of poufs and potted palms and too much passementerie ....
Cleanliness: A Matter of Beauty Linda 2008
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In 1910, wrote Richardson, she already stood out for the unconventional sparseness of her rooms, for her disdain of poufs and potted palms and too much passementerie ....
Archive 2008-02-01 Linda 2008
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It is easy to imagine that the five decorative tassels in a discreet wall case near the entrance are the tips of a vast and justifiably little-explored iceberg of passementerie.
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The tireless attention to detail of the beading or passementerie used to finish Mr. St. Laurent's thought?
Yves Saint Laurent at the de Young Museum sfmike 2008
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Handmade passementerie a dying art and his use of age old techniques is encouraging for the future.
Passementerie 2007
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They have revived the ancient craft of passementerie to a new level gaining the respect as a new art form.
Passementerie 2007
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“He insulted us all and the Confederacy too,” said Mrs. Merriwether, and her stout bust heaved violently beneath its glittering passementerie trimmings.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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“He insulted us all and the Confederacy too,” said Mrs. Merriwether, and her stout bust heaved violently beneath its glittering passementerie trimmings.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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“He insulted us all and the Confederacy too,” said Mrs. Merriwether, and her stout bust heaved violently beneath its glittering passementerie trimmings.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
sionnach commented on the word passementerie
passementerie (10 S. viii. 448).— I am not sure that I know what " passementerie " is, but I think it is akin to gimp, and I imagine that "a hundred passementerie " may mean so many devices made of wire enclosed in a casing of silken threads, or of thread or cord sufficiently strong to be twisted into shape without metallic support. " Two doz. abeill pasmenterie " were perhaps twenty-four bits of trimming, more or less, in the form of bees (abeilies). They may have been for badges.
Notes and Queries, 1908, page 54.
April 14, 2010
tumbel commented on the word passementerie
"instead of having to repeatedly draw lace or other fine ornamentals like schiffli or passementarie trims, you can render them once, then define a brush." from a textbook on CAD for fashion design.
October 6, 2012