dentelle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French dentelle.
Noun
dentelle (plural dentelles)
- (bookbinding) An ornamental tooling like lace.
References
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Dentelle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “dentelle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑ̃.tɛl/
Audio; “la dentelle”: (file)
Noun
dentelle f (plural dentelles)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: دَانْتِيل (dāntīl), دَانْتِل (dāntil)
- → Armenian: տանթէլ (tantʻēl), → ժանյակ (žanyak) (calque)
- → Bulgarian: данте́ла (dantéla)
- → English: dentelle
- → Macedonian: тантела (tantela)
- → Ottoman Turkish: دانتهل (dantel), دانتله (dantele), دانتهلا (dantelâ, dantela), تنتنه (tentene)
- → Persian: دانتل (dântel)
- → Romanian: dantelă
Further reading
- “dentelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.