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passement

passement noun: lace, brocade, braid etc., sewed on a garment.

Noun

passement (plural passements)

  1. Lace, brocade, braid etc., sewed on a garment.
    • "A gray riding suit, passemeted with silver, russet walking boots, a cut band, a gray hat and plume, black hair"1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees...

Forms of passement

pluralpassements
alternative formpassment
alternative formpassament
alternative formposament
alternative formposement

Origin of passement

From French. Some of the alternative forms came via German.

Questions about passement

What does passement mean?
Passement means lace, brocade, braid etc., sewed on a garment.
What part of speech is passement?
Passement is a noun.
What is the plural of passement?
The plural of passement is passements.

Words near passement in the dictionary

  1. passeggiatas
  2. passel
  3. passels
  4. passemeasure
  5. passemeasures
  6. passement
  7. passementerie
  8. passementeries
  9. passements
  10. passemezzi
  11. passemezzo

Source and license

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