lambrequin

American  

[lam-bri-kin, lam-ber-] / ˈlæm brɪ kɪn, ˈlæm bər- /

noun

1. a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.

2. a curtain or drapery covering the upper part of an opening, as a door or window, or suspended from a shelf.

3. Heraldry. mantling.

4. a band of decoration near the top of the body of a vase.

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lambrequin British  

/ ˈlæmbrɪkɪn, ˈlæmbə- /

noun

1. an ornamental hanging covering the edge of a shelf or the upper part of a window or door

2. 1. a border pattern giving a draped effect, used on ceramics, etc

   2. ( as modifier )

      a lambrequin pattern

3. (often plural) a scarf worn over a helmet

4. heraldry another name for mantling

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Etymology

Origin of lambrequin

1715–25; < French, Middle French < Middle Dutch *lamperken, equivalent to lamper fine translucent cloth + -ken -kin

Example Sentences

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lambrequin

Above these is a mantel, covered with a lambrequin of dingy red crape paper.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Regularly, like the rise and fall of a wave on the summer sea, it rose and fell, while my pale lambrequin of hair rose and fell fitfully with it.

From Remarks by Bill Nye

In one of the upper rooms can be seen a mantel with a lambrequin on it and a clock stopped at twenty minutes after five.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker

A trooper caught his huge cavalry spurs in the meshes of a lace curtain in one of the parlors and brought down cornice, lambrequin, and all with a crash.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree

She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin.

From Maggie, a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane