Paillette vs Sequin - What's the difference?
paillette | sequin |
A sequin or spangle.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 450:
(historical) Any of various small gold coins minted in Italy and Turkey.
* 1883:
A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing.
As nouns the difference between paillette and sequin
is that paillette is a sequin or spangle while sequin is any of various small gold coins minted in Italy and Turkey.paillette
English
Noun
(en noun)- A plump and energetic 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
sequin
English
Noun
(en noun)- English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins , the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pices stamped with what looked like wisps of string or its of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to ware them round your neck - nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...