Etymology:
French, past participle of diamanter to set with diamonds, to make shine like diamonds.
Material to which a sparkling effect is given by the use of paste brilliants, powdered glass or crystal, etc. Also attrib. (OED)
"In 'Country Girl', O'Brien uses the frame of memory to crop the commonplace out of life. She loses her virginity in a field outside Dublin, but recalls 'the damp of the grass, a diamanté hair slide that I had lost, the peas that kept slipping off his fork.'"
- Lauren Collins, "Ink: where she was from", 20 May 2013 The New Yorker
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