macramé
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The emblem of Tiberias, Israel made from macramé. 
Macramé bracelets from Tobatí, Paraguay.
English
Etymology
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
Noun
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
textile
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Verb
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
- ^ "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
Etymology
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
Noun
macramé m (plural macramés)
Further reading
- “macramé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
macramé m (plural macramés)
Further reading
- “macramé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10