passementerie

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All embroidery and passementerie should be rich, close, and continuous.

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  1. noun Ornamental trimming for a garment, as braid, lace, or metallic beads.

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  • She makes a living selling groceries, vegetables, passementerie, snacks and soft drinks. —  Kiva Loans
  • Once selected it should bring the look together by a thoughtful combination of style, size, shape, colour, appropriate fabric and passementerie. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • 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
  • All embroidery and passementerie should be rich, close, and continuous. —  Textiles and Clothing
  • It is scarlet satin trimmed with green beetle-wing passementerie, and gold fringe My one comfort, as I gasped out spasmodic thanks, was this: I would look such a vulgar horror in the scarlet satin trimmed with green beetle-wings and gold fringe, that the Duchesse de Melun might fail to recognize Lys d'Angely CHAPTER XXVII I dusted and shook out every cell in my brain, during the night, in the hope of finding any inspiration which might save me from the servants' ball; but I could think of nothing, except that I might suddenly come down with a contagious disease. —  The Motor Maid
 

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  1. French, from passement, ornamental braid, cloth, from Old French, a passing, from passer, to pass; see pass.

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  1. French, from passement, lace: see passement.
 

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/pæsmɛntəˈri/
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