soutache

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
soutache
    n 1: a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Soutache \Sou`tache"\, n. [F.]
   A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as
   {Russian braid}.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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