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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