Crossword-Solution: PAILLETTE 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The obsidian also has apparently been subjected to the artificial fire; and a splinter of it contains a paillette of free copper.

And there were fabrics of strange names--crêpe, tulle, serge, taffeta, brocade, charmeuse, paillette, jet, batiste, voile--what not? And there were the underpinnings to all these--the stockings and garters, the corsets and chiffon corset-covers and combinations, chemi-pantalons and petticoats.

And a witty Paris journalist had said that "the costume was designed to represent Eve, not before nor after, but behind the fall"; and Paillette, who was there, working up her "Modes" letter for _Le Style_, had answered—— Everybody at table was leaning forward and listening, as the Goblin quoted the _riposte_ of Paillette.

Cotgrave gives, "Bisette, a plate (of gold, silver, or copper) wherewith some kinds of stuffes are stripped." Oudin, "Feuille ou paillette d'or ou d'argent." In these significations it frequently occurs.