lamé
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɑːmeɪ
Noun
editlamé (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
editfabric
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlamé 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
editParticiple
editlamé (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
editSpanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editlamé m (plural lamés)
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editlamé
- 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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