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passement

[ pas-muhnt ]

noun

  1. a garment trimming of gold, silver, linen, or silk thread.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of passement1

1530–40; < French, for passeman < Spanish pasamano railing (so called because one passes one's hand along it in going up and down stairs), hence edging for clothes. See pass, manual
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Example Sentences

"It's not retaliation," said Steven Passement, the agency's acting special operations supervisor in Tucson.

Passement said water left for migrants in the desert will never be enough to sustain them and instead "is giving them false hope."

Cartisane.—Guipure or passement, made with cartisane, which is vellum or parchment in thin strips or small rolls, covered with silk, gold thread or similar material.

Silver.—A passement or guipure wholly or in large part composed of silver wire, or of warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton combined, wound with a thin, flat ribbon of silver.

Guipure.—It was originally a kind of lace or passement made of cartisane and twisted silk.

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