‖ passementerie
(pɑsmɑ̃tri)
Also pasmentier.
[F. (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. passement: see above and -ery.]
Trimming of gold or silver lace, or (in later use) of gimp, braid, or the like, or of jet or metal beads.
| 1794 A. Young Trav. France (ed. 2) I. xix. 550 They assert their pasmentiers of silk and cotton mixed, to be cheaper than any similar fabric in England. 1851 Harper's Mag. II. 431/1 A cloak..having three rich..fastenings of passementerie. 1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen x. 76 The purchase of an artistic arrangement in black silk and jet, velvet and passementerie. 1882 Daily News 30 Aug. 3/1 Open-worked boots..made of a kind of passementerie or gimp. 1893 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 5/2 The Duchess..wore a velvet and passementerie mantle. 1903 [see dangly a.]. 1933 M. de la Roche Master of Jalna viii. 100 ‘Put a frill on it,’ he suggested. ‘A frill! A frill of what?’ ‘Would passementerie do?’ he asked. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with Wind xii. 232 Her stout bosom heaved violently beneath its glittering passementerie trimmings. |