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passementerie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Passementerie \Passe*men"terie\ (E. p[.a]s*m[e^]n"tr[i^]; F. p[aum]`s'm[aum]N`t'r[-e]"), n. [F.] Trimmings, esp. of braids, cords, gimps, beads, or tinsel.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A decorative piece of lace or other cloth on clothes. 2 trimming consisting of braids, cords, beads, tinsel, etc.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Passementerie (, ) or passementarie is the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings (in French, passements) of applied braid, gold or silver cord, embroidery, colored silk, or beads for clothing or furnishings.
Styles of passementerie include the tassel, fringes (applied, as opposed to integral), ornamental cords, galloons, pompons, rosettes, and gimps as other forms. Tassels, pompons, and rosettes are point ornaments, and the others are linear ornaments.
Usage examples of "passementerie".
When she appeared before the Judge, with whom Sir Charles Collingham and Colonel Papillon were seated, the former at once pointed out that she was wearing a dark mantle trimmed with the same sort of passementerie as that picked up in the sleeping-car.
The end result was a short, black strapless dress topped with a bolero jacket aswirl with red passementerie, a soft, straight, ribbon-tied ponytail, smoky eyes, red-red lips, onyx earrings, sheer black hose, and high-heeled patent pumps.
Ladies with the airs of queens descended from their carriages at the entrance to the notions shop, unencumbered by nursemaids or servants, and as they pretended to buy Holland laces and passementerie trimmings, they pawned, between sobs, the last glittering ornaments of their lost paradise.
But in a few hours order would be reestablished because she at last took pity on so much silk strewn on the floor, so many leftover brocades and useless pieces of passementerie, so many silver fox tails, all condemned to the fire.
In the room that had been prepared for him, there was a bed with a passementerie canopy worthy of a bishop.
These include Chinese silk, embroidery in gold thread of extreme fineness and technical skill from Byzantium and the Orient, passementerie, heavy gold brocade, and plaited cords of the finest quality.
He worked vigorously, revising the engrossed copy of the edict, until Mary, very handsome in a black grosgrain silk trimmed with beaded passementerie, came to fetch him.
It was not much past two of the clock when Juliette Devereaux, attired in a bright primroseyellow gown of Circassian cloth, with a ruff made up high at the neck, and a great deal of passementerie trim about the bodice and sleeves which made jewelry almost unnecessary, brushed a splash of Florida water through her hair and sallied forth in search of the other members of the Duckmanton house party.
His head was muddled with flounces and fluting and frills, but he learned the difference between passementerie and twisted floss silk.
It had a long, square train and a small satin collar and epaulets that were composed of double frills of lace held by richly beaded passementerie that fell in tassels.
He wore a rich skirt and a shawl of blue damask with fine gold passementerie, and no headdress or any other adornment on his head except for his hair, which was so blond and curly it looked like rings of gold.
In her pitifully plain taffeta, she was overwhelmed by the scallops, poufing, cording, piping, fringing, passementerie, and tassels that ornamented their sophisticated gowns.
Her fair faded tints, her quaint corseting, the passementerie on her tight-waisted dress, the velvet band on her tapering arm, made her resemble a "carte de visite" photograph of the middle sixties.