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miqrama
Arabic · medieval
"an ornamental fringed cloth"
an ornamental fringed cloth or veil
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macrame
Turkish/French · 1800s
"knotted decorative cord work"
carried through Ottoman Turkish into French decorative craft vocabulary
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macrame
English · 1860s
"a craft of knotting cord into decorative patterns"
settled as the English word for the knotting craft
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