dentelle

English

Etymology

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French dent

French -elle

French dentellebor.

English dentelle

Borrowed from French dentelle.

Noun

dentelle (plural dentelles)

1. (bookbinding) An ornamental tooling like lace.

References

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Dentelle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
• “dentelle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From dent +‎ -elle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.tɛl/

• Audio; “la dentelle”:

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Noun

dentelle f (plural dentelles)

1. lace
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Il admirait l'exaltation de son âme et les dentelles de sa jupe. D'ailleurs, n'était-ce pas une femme du monde, et une femme mariée! une vraie maîtresse enfin?

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Derived terms

• dentellerie
• ne pas faire dans la dentelle

Descendants

• → Arabic: دَانْتِيل (dāntīl), دَانْتِل (dāntil)
• → Armenian: տանթէլ (tantʻēl), → ժանյակ (žanyak) (calque)
• → Bulgarian: данте́ла (dantéla)
• → English: dentelle
• → Macedonian: тантела (tantela)
• → Ottoman Turkish: دانته‌ل (dantel), دانتله (dantele), دانته‌لا (dantelâ, dantela), تنتنه (tentene)
  • Turkish: dantel, dantelâ, dantela, tentene
• → Persian: دانتل (dântel)
• → Romanian: dantelă
• → Vietnamese: đăng ten

Further reading

• “dentelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012