Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ornamental trimming for a garment, as braid, lace, or metallic beads.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. A decorative piece of lace or other cloth on clothes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Trimmings, esp. of braids, cords, gimps, beads, or tinsel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a decoration or adornment on a garment
Etymologies
- From the French passement, meaning 'decorative lace'. (Wiktionary)
- French, from passement, ornamental braid, cloth, from Old French, a passing, from passer, to pass; see pass. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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 ....”
“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.”
“The tireless attention to detail of the beading or passementerie used to finish Mr. St. Laurent's thought?”
“Handmade passementerie a dying art and his use of age old techniques is encouraging for the future.”
“They have revived the ancient craft of passementerie to a new level gaining the respect as a new art form.”
““He insulted us all and the Confederacy too,” said Mrs. Merriwether, and her stout bust heaved violently beneath its glittering passementerie trimmings.”
“On his way to the passementerie, my source of knowledge spoke briefly over his shoulder, 'It looks like a solitary weaver, not a firm.”
“I asked you to catalogue the new shipment of passementerie.”
“I was on the point of taking a job with a firm that made passementerie, on Rue des Victoires.”
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tumbel "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. Oct 5, 2012
sionnach 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. Apr 14, 2010