Meaning of Lame | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A fabric made from gold or silver threads and silk, wool or cotton.
   uncountable
3. A stupid or undesirable person.
   slang
4. A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
5. The electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers.
   countable
6. A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
   in-plural
7. A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

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Examples

“You lames tryna clone my style and run wit it.”

“This rim involved a raised rolled edge on the rerebrace that was inserted into a raised lip on the lower lame of the pauldron. This lip allows the arm to rotate without the need for leather straps and can be clearly seen carved on to the effigy […]”

“These pauldrons are generally asymmetrical with the left pauldron wider than the right, which is cut away for the passage of the lance. It would be attached to the shoulder by points through a restored leather tab on the top lame at the apex […]”

“Their king, Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), an epicene seven-footer with a shaved head and what looks like a gold-lamé thong, lounges on cushions in his court, surrounded by aroused lesbians intertwined and writhing like snakes in a basket.”

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