soutache
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of soutache
1855–60; < French: braid of a hussar's shako < Hungarian sujtás flat braid for trimming
Example Sentences
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Released in 1979, this City Sophisticate outfit had a faux-fur-trimmed coat and skirt accented by a yellow soutache braid.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2019
And so you will wear that soutache embroidery and like it.
From Washington Post ● May 8, 2018
She held a familiar garment in her hand, and in the dim light of Feinholz's private office the buttons and soutache with which the cape was adorned sparkled like burnished gold.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
Spanish, Rococo, soutache, Cambray . . . stockings, thread, cotton, silk .
From The Darling and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
You are all plain one minute, and the next you are all soutache and buttons.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
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