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passementerie

NOUN
  1. a decoration or adornment on a garment
    the trimming on a hat
    the trim on a shirt

How To Use passementerie In A Sentence

  • The style of the woven textiles, the floral embroidery, the passementerie and - above all - the design of the magnificent raised work of the headboard of the ‘King's Bed’ (more Jean Marot than Daniel) seem consistent with the 1670s.
  • Models paraded in sheer white cotton voile tunics trimmed with tiny passementerie balls.
  • Likewise, the two-part leaded mirrors and the French crimson silk curtains, decorated with gold-threaded passementerie, were reproduced from their description in the 1759 Gaillard inventory of the grand salon.
  • The elaborate passementerie incorporates the appropriately nuptial imagery of ribbons and bows.
  • It was also present in a re-embroidered cut velvet coat with passementerie trimming at the cuffs and in a bustier gown made in a re-edition of a vibrant teal and violet floral velour de sable. Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures
  • The pair's work, reviving the ancient art of passementerie - decoration using fringing, trimming and braiding - is reflected in their home.
  • Dolores pushed the table to the middle of the room, went over to the wall, pulled away a scrap of kalsomined canvas about a yard square, and revealed a gap crammed with ribbons, cords, lace edging and other objects of passementerie. The Quest
  • `It is a wooden button, covered in passementerie of brown silk cords and silver frisé thread. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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