macramé

Borrowed from French macramé, from Italian macramè, from Turkish makreme, from Arabic مِقْرَمَة‎ (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم‎ (miqram, “bedspread”) [1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmækɹəˌmeɪ/

• Rhymes: -əmeɪ

• IPA^(key): /məˈkɹɑːmi/

• Rhymes: -ɑːmi

macramé (countable and uncountable, plural macramés)

1. A form of decorative textile made by knotting and weaving.

macramé (third-person singular simple present macramés, present participle macraméing, simple past and past participle macraméed or macraméd)

1. To create textiles using the macramé technique.

Italian macramè, from Turkish makreme, from Arabic مِقْرَمَة‎ (miqrama, “ornamental fringe, embroidered veil”), from مِقْرَم‎ (miqram, “bedspread”)

• IPA^(key): /ma.kʁa.me/

macramé m (plural macramés)

1. macramé

• “macramé” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

macramé m (plural macramés)

1. macramé