lavaliere
adjEtymology Borrowed from French lavallière.
1
Worn on the chest.
- a lavaliere microphone
- Related terms
- lavalier microphone
lavaliere
noun/ˌlæv.əˈlɪɹ/ · /ˌlɑv-/
Etymology Borrowed from French lavallière.
1
Business, Clothing, Fashion, Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Textiles A pussy bow.
2
Jewelry, Lifestyle Alternative Alternative form of lavalier (“a pendant on a chain”).
- Slipping off the cover of her box, Beth uttered a low cry of amazement and admiration. Then she held up a dainty lavalliere, with a pendant containing a superb pearl.1914, Edith Van Dyne [pseudonym: Lyman Frank Baum], chapter XV, in Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West, Chicago,: The Reilly & Britton Co.: