lambrequin
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French lambrequin.
Noun edit
lambrequin (plural lambrequins)
- A scarf or other piece of material used as a covering for a helmet.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 146:
- A dead man (he had, I think, been suffocated with a lambrequin, there being those who practice that art) lay at the corner.
- (heraldry) A heraldic representation of such an item: mantling.
- (US) A short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing; a valance.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
- (ceramics) A border pattern with draped effect.
Translations edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lambrequin m (plural lambrequins)
- lambrequin (all senses)
- (heraldry) mantling
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: llambrequí
- → English: lambrequin
- → Russian: ламбрекен (lambreken)
- → Spanish: llambrequín
Further reading edit
- “lambrequin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.