'I asked you to catalogue the new shipment of passementerie.'. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
The same facing and passementerie may be used at neck and sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Trimming should mean something -- whether jewelry or passementerie. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Gray cashmere with steel passementerie has also been much in vogue. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
All embroidery and passementerie should be rich, close, and continuous. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
I was on the point of taking a job with a firm that made passementerie, on Rue des Victoires. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Handmade passementerie a dying art and his use of age old techniques is encouraging for the future. From Wordnik.com. [Passementerie] Reference
They have revived the ancient craft of passementerie to a new level gaining the respect as a new art form. From Wordnik.com. [Passementerie] Reference
The tireless attention to detail of the beading or passementerie used to finish Mr. St. Laurent's thought?. From Wordnik.com. [Yves Saint Laurent at the de Young Museum] Reference
Often a narrow passementerie can be found with one strong edge and a good border can be made by joining the two. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
On his way to the passementerie, my source of knowledge spoke briefly over his shoulder, 'It looks like a solitary weaver, not a firm. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
For trimming these richer garments, bits of fur or passementerie can be used, or the material may be stencilled or even painted freehand. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act] Reference
It is easy to imagine that the five decorative tassels in a discreet wall case near the entrance are the tips of a vast and justifiably little-explored iceberg of passementerie. From Wordnik.com. [A Chair For All Reasons] Reference
Oh, yes; I used to work at passementerie on Spring Street. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Days in a Mad-House] Reference
Mrs. Clenlans wore a rich costume of black satin, trimmed with passementerie. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Era Vol. 3 No. 4] Reference
She makes a living selling groceries, vegetables, passementerie, snacks and soft drinks. From Wordnik.com. [Kiva Loans] Reference
She was gowned in black with the sparkle of passementerie and jet, and at her breast she wore a single red rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
A passementerie embroidered silk ottoman coat was plenty posh, ditto a black silk georgette and tulle beaded gown. From Wordnik.com. [Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures] Reference
It was cut square at the neck and trimmed with passementerie and fringe brought crosswise from breast to skirt hem. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
However as Virginie brought forward a cashmere dress trimmed with passementerie and jet, she thought fit to interfere. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody's Girl (En Famille)] Reference
In commercial life they are traders, pawnbrokers, and peddlers, and control the artificial-flower and passementerie trade. From Wordnik.com. [Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making] Reference
Oh, Mr Thing, she calls out, I know that passementerie is wrong, but Madame Floss says she'll take it off and put a bit of lace instead. From Wordnik.com. [The Summing Up]
'connoisseurs', preoccupied with duchesses and passementerie. From Wordnik.com. [London Review of Books] Reference
There's one-white brocaded peau de soie, all frills and rosebuds; the bodice is trimmed with pearl passementerie, and it's a dear. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Net] Reference
Princesse style, will exactly suit your daughter -- and on the dinner gowns she can wear a trimming of that dull jet passementerie. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
A soft pale frock trimmed with passementerie of the same shade and topped by a large hat of black chip tipped well towards the right side. From Wordnik.com. [The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2] Reference
I have a sister who works at passementerie. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Days in a Mad-House] Reference
Labels: passementerie. From Wordnik.com. [Passementerie] Reference
Silk and passementerie. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891] Reference
Silk and passementerie. ". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891] Reference
"passementerie," or braid-making. From Wordnik.com. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories] Reference
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