paramento
English
Etymology
Noun
paramento
- (obsolete) ornament; decoration
- c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
- There were cloaks, gowns, cassocks, And other paramentos
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paramento”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
Latin
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin parāmentum.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.ɾaˈmẽ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.ɾaˈmẽ.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.ɾɐˈmẽ.tu/
- Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧men‧to
Noun
paramento m (plural paramentos)
- ornament, adornment
- (religion) vestment
- (religion) liturgical paraphernalia or ornaments
- (construction) facing, wall
Derived terms
Spanish
Further reading
- “paramento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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