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Originally posted by JayJay
(French, from Old French, from Latin lmina, thin plate)
Lame = A brocaded fabric woven with metallic threads, often of gold or silver.
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A thin metal plate, especially one of the overlapping steel plates in medieval armor
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Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible: Lame from the accident, he walked with a cane. A lame wing kept the bird from flying.
Marked by pain or rigidness: a lame back.
Weak and ineffectual; unsatisfactory: a lame attempt to apologize; lame excuses for not arriving on time.
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