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Passementerie > Fringe trimming
PREFERRED TERM
Fringe trimming  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the Middle English "frenge" and the Old French "frenge". It determines an ornamental bordering, that is, a set of trimming of pendant cords, either loose threads or formed into tassels, twists, etc.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989; [www.oed.com] Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Garniture de franges

French

Floccaggio

Italian

floccatura
Flocadura

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/218
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