lamé

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See also: lame and lamè

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French lamé.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lamé (countable and uncountable, plural lamés)

  1. (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.
  2. (fencing, countable) The electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers.

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Franco-Provençal

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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lamé (Valdôtain)

  1. Alternative form of amar (to love)

References

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  • lamé in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
  • aimer in Patois VdA: Le site du Francoprovençal en Vallée d'Aoste – on patoisvda.org

French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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lamé m (plural lamés)

  1. a type of fabric woven or knit with thin ribbons of metallic fiber usually gold or silver, but sometimes copper, in color

Descendants

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  • English: lamé
  • Greek: λαμέ (lamé)
  • Italian: lamé
  • Japanese: ラメ
  • Polish: lama
  • Spanish: lamé

Participle

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lamé (feminine lamée, masculine plural lamés, feminine plural lamées)

  1. past participle of lamer

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /laˈme/ [laˈme]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: la‧mé

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French lamé.

Noun

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lamé m (plural lamés)

  1. lamé

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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lamé

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of lamer

Further reading

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