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Meanings of passementerie in English

Russian
позумент
Catalan
passamaneria
Spanish
pasamanería
Wikidata

Elaborate braids and other trimmings.

Related terms
позумент
Catalan
passamà

A decoration or adornment on a garment.

passamà
Usage of passementerie in English
1
Machine-made passementerie on top of conspicuous but sleazy material is always shoddy.
Etiquette
2
Gray cashmere with steel passementerie has also been much in vogue.
Manners and Social Usages
3
In commercial life they are traders, pawnbrokers, and peddlers, and control the artificial-flower and passementerie trade.
Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
4
Described her dress of black satin with passementerie.
The new yorker
5
For a moment Mrs. Fowler hesitated while the struggling breath grew more irregular under the passementerie on her bosom.
Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage
6
There's one-white brocaded peau de soie, all frills and rosebuds; the bodice is trimmed with pearl passementerie, and it's a dear.
The Net
7
She was gowned in black with the sparkle of passementerie and jet, and at her breast she wore a single red rose.
The Lighted Match
Frequent collocations
Translations for passementerie
Passementerie through the time