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

• Catalan: llama (ca) f, lamé m
• Finnish: lamee (fi)
• Greek: λαμέ (el) (lamé)
• Italian: lamé m
• Polish: lama (pl) f
• Spanish: lamé (es) m
• Welsh: eurwe f, lamé m

Anagrams

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

Franco-Provençal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlame] (Aosta)

Verb

lamé (Valdôtain)

1. Alternative form of amar (“to love”)

References

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.me/

Noun

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

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

Participle

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

1. past participle of lamer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• mâle, mêla

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French lamé.

Noun

lamé m (plural lamés)

1. lamé

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lamé

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of lamer

Further reading

• “lamé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28