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Etymology
[edit]1865, borrowed from French macramé, from Italian macramè, from Turkish makreme, from Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”),[1] from قَرَمَ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]macramé (countable and uncountable, plural macramés)
- A form of decorative textile made by knotting and weaving.
- 2020 October 19, Thunderbox Entertainment, Tsuro - The Game of The Path:
- Robby is contemplating macramé.
Translations
[edit]textile
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Verb
[edit]macramé (third-person singular simple present macramés, present participle macraméing, simple past and past participle macraméed or macraméd)
- To create textiles using the macramé technique.
References
[edit]- ^ "macramé." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.
- ^ “macramé”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian macramè, from Turkish makreme, from Arabic مِقْرَمَة (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم (miqram, “bedspread”), from قَرَمَ (qarama, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Semitic *q-r-m.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]macramé m (plural macramés)
Further reading
[edit]- “macramé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]macramé m (plural macramés)
Further reading
[edit]- “macramé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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