lamé

Borrowed from French lamé.

• Rhymes: -ɑːmeɪ

lamé (countable and uncountable, plural lamés)

1. (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.

2. (fencing, countable) The electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers.

• Elma, mela, mela-, amel, -meal, meal, alme, Lema, male-, Male, male, leam, Leam, Elam, Malé, lema

• IPA^(key): [ˈlame] (Aosta)

lamé (Valdôtain)

1. Alternative form of amar (“to love”)

• lamé in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
• aimer in Patois VdA: Le site du Francoprovençal en Vallée d'Aoste – on patoisvda.org

• IPA^(key): /la.me/

lamé m (plural lamés)

1. a type of fabric woven or knit with thin ribbons of metallic fiber usually gold or silver, but sometimes copper, in color

lamé (feminine lamée, masculine plural lamés, feminine plural lamées)

1. past participle of lamer

• “lamé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mâle, mêla

• IPA^(key): /laˈme/ [laˈme]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: la‧mé

Borrowed from French lamé.

lamé m (plural lamés)

1. lamé

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lamé

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of lamer

• “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