paillette

Borrowed from French paillette, from paille (“straw”) + -ette.

• IPA^(key): /pælˈjɛt/, /paɪˈjɛt/

paillette (plural paillettes)

1. A sequin or spangle.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 450:

     A plump and energetic chanteuse of some ten summers, incandescently blond, now emerged from a back recess wearing a gown of artificial golden paillettes sewn, not to any underlying fabric but only—precariously—to one another

From paille + -ette.

• IPA^(key): /pajɛt/

paillette f (plural paillettes)

1. sequin

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

paillette f (invariable)

1. sequin