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Please help with this word!

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plantsitter · 14/12/2008 19:25

I am trying to describe a christmas decoration to dp and I have forgotten the word. It's tinsel-like but it's in strands and you drape it over the tree (although I don't think anyone uses it any more). Some people call it angel hair I think but the word is something like mishmalian or doralian or something. It's driving me mad!!! DP doesn't care any more -not sure he ever really did - but I'm going to go insane if I don't find the word! Have tried googling various things but as I've forgotten the word it's a bit difficult.

Thanks in advance!

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DontCallMeSantaBaby · 14/12/2008 19:27

It's lam ... argh ... laminetti or something like that.

IdrisTheDragon · 14/12/2008 19:27

lametta? Sometimes called angel hair I think

DontCallMeSantaBaby · 14/12/2008 19:28

Lametta! Which is nothing like mishmalian or doralian, but it IS what you're describing, so maybe it has more than one name.

TortoiseRidesaReindeer · 14/12/2008 19:28

Lametta?

plantsitter · 14/12/2008 19:29

Lametta! Thank God! (and you all, more so really).

Not doralian or mishmalian then .

Can get on with the rest of my life now.

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DontCallMeSantaBaby · 14/12/2008 21:00

From henceforth, a mishmalian is a word that you do know, but just can't recall from the recesses of your memory. A doralian mishmalian is a special variety where it turns out that the word you're after is not the one you were thinking of at all ...

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