lamé
lamé noun: a fabric made from gold or silver threads and silk, wool or cotton.
Noun
lamé (countable and uncountable, plural lamés)
- A fabric made from gold or silver threads and silk, wool or cotton.
- Their king, Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), an epicene seven-footer with a shaved head and what looks like a gold-lamé thong, lounges on cushions in his court, surrounded by aroused lesbians intertwined and writhing like snakes in a basket.2007 April 2, David Denby, “Men Gone Wild”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2019
- The electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers.
Forms of lamé
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Origin of lamé
Borrowed from French lamé.
Phrases with lamé
Words that rhyme with lamé
Questions about lamé
- What does lamé mean?
- Lamé means a fabric made from gold or silver threads and silk, wool or cotton.
- What part of speech is lamé?
- Lamé is a noun.
- What is the plural of lamé?
- The plural of lamé is lamés.
Words near lamé in the dictionary
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