Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In embroidery, sprinkled, strewn, or sowed over the surface of: said of small figures, as bees, flowers, etc.
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qms commented on the word parsemé
This regular entry for parsemé lacks the usage examples and etymology provided for this word in its Word of the Day notification. These follow:
Examples
Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parseme with pearls.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I agreed to the bargain, of course, with all dutiful submission; and seeing she was preparing to set to work in a yellow dress parseme with red roses, I gently hinted, that I thought it was a pity to spoil so fine a gown, and that she had better change it.
Fanny Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
Note
This word comes from the French 'parsemer,' to sprinkle, strew.
May 30, 2014
qms commented on the word parsemé
You'll note in any verse en Français
Accents bloom like flowers in May,
Les poèmes adorned
Like roses bethorned
With aigu and grave in sharp parsemé.
May 30, 2014