lamé
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːmeɪ
Noun
lamé (countable and uncountable, plural lamés)
- (uncountable) A fabric made from gold or silver threads and silk, wool or cotton.
- 2007 April 2, “Men Gone Wild”, in The New Yorker[1]:
- Their king, Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), an epicene seven-footer with a shaved head and what looks like a gold-lamé thong, lounges on cushions in his court, surrounded by aroused lesbians intertwined and writhing like snakes in a basket.
- (fencing, countable) The electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers.
Translations
fabric
Anagrams
Franco-Provençal
Pronunciation
Verb
lamé (Valdôtain)
References
- lamé in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
- aimer in Patois VdA: Le site du Francoprovençal en Vallée d'Aoste – on patoisvda.org
French
Pronunciation
Noun
lamé m (plural lamés)
- a type of fabric woven or knit with thin ribbons of metallic fiber usually gold or silver, but sometimes copper, in color
Descendants
Participle
lamé (feminine lamée, masculine plural lamés, feminine plural lamées)
- past participle of lamer
Further reading
- “lamé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
lamé m (plural lamés)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
lamé
- second-person singular voseo imperative of lamer
Further reading
- “lamé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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