lamé

See also: lame and lamè

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lamé.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːmeɪ

Noun

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.

Translations

fabric

• Finnish: lamee
• Polish: lama (pl) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Welsh: eurwe f, lamé m

Anagrams

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, leam, lema, male, meal, mela, mela-

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French

Verb

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

1. past participle of lamer

Anagrams

• mâle, mêla

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Spanish

Verb

lamé

1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of lamer.