Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A narrow flat braid in a herringbone pattern, used for trimming and embroidery.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A very narrow fiat braid, made of wool, cotton, silk, or tinsel, and sewed upon fabrics as a decoration, usually in fanciful designs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as Russian braid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A narrow braid often decorated with a herringbone pattern

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Hungarian sujtás.]

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Examples

  • The coat, estimated to be from the early 1900s and possibly more than 100 years old, was exquisitely crafted of sapphire blue velvet with what looked to be soutache embroidery in a swirling pattern of fern leaves.

    Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian 2010

  • I like the soutache-looped causality and microscule hamster-annotations so much better than Ben Trafford.

    Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

  • The coat, estimated to be from the early 1900s and possibly more than 100 years old, was exquisitely crafted of sapphire blue velvet with what looked to be soutache embroidery in a swirling pattern of fern leaves.

    Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian 2010

  • Then, I'd sew some bright red soutache around the neck, front and back.

    Gray Ruffle Dress - A Dress A Day 2008

  • Recently, at the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Academy Awards, on her E! television broadcast and afterward at the gala parties, Joan sparkled in a bright gold soutache embroidered gown, studded with diamanté all over.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

  • In terms of seaming, she specialized in ruching, buttonholes, and soutache work.

    languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD. 2004

  • The apprehension was replaced by relief, as Marina watched the woman mentally removing soutache and lace, pin tucks and ribbon.

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Elizabeth had already divested herself of hat, coat, and jacket, and Marina found herself eyeing the fashionable emerald trumpet skirt with its trimming of black soutache braid and the cream silk shirtwaist with its softening fall of Venice lace with a pang of envy.

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • She had indeed looked quite unlike herself with her thick brown hair piled in glossy curls, a few dangling here and there, her smart hat and blue velvet cape to match with its black soutache braided and beaded trim.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

  • She had indeed looked quite unlike herself with her thick brown hair piled in glossy curls, a few dangling here and there, her smart hat and blue velvet cape to match with its black soutache braided and beaded trim.

    Hearts STEF ANN HOLM 2001

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