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English

From paillette, from paille ‘straw’ + -ette.

/pælˈjɛt/, /paɪˈjɛt/

A sequin or spangle.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 450:
  
  A plump and energentic chanteuse of some ten summers, incandescently blond, now emerged from a back recess wearing a gown of artificial golden paillettes sewn, not to any underlying fabric but only—precariously—to one another

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