lamé
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɑːmeɪ
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
fabric
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Participle[edit]
lamé (feminine lamée, masculine plural lamés, feminine plural lamées)
- past participle of lamer
Further reading[edit]
- “lamé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
lamé m (plural lamés)
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
lamé
- second-person singular voseo imperative of lamer
Further reading[edit]
- “lamé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- fr:Fabrics
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- es:Fabrics