brocade

en-noun

brocade (countable and uncountable, plural brocades)

From Occitan brocada and Spanish and Portuguese brocado, influenced by French brocart, from Italian broccato, from brocco, ultimately from Gaulish.

Madame Legarde, the "glass of fashion and the nurse of form," (alias the most fashionable of milliners,) has comfortably assured me, "that my figure has great merit, and only requires cultivation:" this is to be done by tissues, brocades, and laces, which are now scattered round me in charming confusion.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:

… his desire to stand in brocade and sing Rhadames in Aida was like my eagerness to go far, far beyond fellow intellectuals of my generation who had lost the imaginative soul.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 321:

I selected a pair of loose, dark trousers bound at the waist with a russet sash, a tunic with an open neck and large pockets, and a cloak of the true fuligin of that guild of which I am still officially a master, lined with particolored brocade.

1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:

(countable, uncountable) A thick heavy fabric into which raised patterns have been woven, originally in gold and silver; more recently any cloth incorporating raised, woven patterns.

Other species considered occasional migrants have become established in the UK in recent years, such as the ... sombre brocade, Blair's mocha, Flame brocade, and Clifden nonpareil.

2016, P.P. Mary et al., edited by Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy et al., Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics, Springer, →ISBN:

Any of several species of noctuid moths such as some species in the genera Calophasia and Hadena


brocade

en-verb

brocade (third-person singular simple present brocades, present participle brocading, simple past and past participle brocaded)

brocades (present singular third-person)
brocading (participle present)
brocaded (participle past)
brocaded (past)

To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.


rug

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.
Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).

cog

They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.

1855, William Howitt, A Boy′s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert′s Note-Book, page 254:

Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug, and, in winter time, not less than one additional rug.

1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia, page 2297:

1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia, Volume 22, page 181,
My own son had a bunny rug of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny rug to suck his finger with.″

1958, Arthur Hailey, John Castle. Runway Zero-Eight. Bantham Books
She tucked in a rug round the woman. “How’s that?” The woman nodded gratefully.

He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.

1997, Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes, page 22:

(UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.

They spin the choicest rug in Ireland. A friend of mine […] repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford rugs.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:

(historical, now rare) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.

(historical, now rare) A cloak or mantle made of such a frieze.

(colloquial) A dense growth of chest hair.

We're the motherfuckers be fightin' when the rugs [black prisoners] start wasting people around here.

1980, John Irwin, Prisons in Turmoil, page 212:

(US, slang, ethnic slur) Short for rughead.


satinet

en-noun

satinet (countable and uncountable, plural satinets)

A faux satin usually made of synthetic fiber or cotton.


tela

Inherited from Old Spanish tela, from Latin tēla.

(clothing) cloth, fabric (woven material made of fibers)


madras

madras (countable and uncountable, plural madrases)

From Madras, former name of the Indian city Chennai, where it was first produced.

A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.


bez

bȅz (canonical masculine)
бе̏з (Cyrillic)
bez (nominative singular)
beza (genitive singular)
bezu (dative singular)
bez (accusative singular)
bezu (singular vocative)
bezu (locative singular)
bezom (instrumental singular)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بز (bez), from Arabic بَزّ (bazz). Akin to bezistan, bezli, besofra and bespara.


faille

faille (countable and uncountable, plural failles)

A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.


franela

→ Tagalog: pranela

→ Egyptian Arabic: فنلّة

Borrowed from French flanelle, from English flannel.

flannel (a soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers)

(Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela) T-shirt


duvetyne

duvetyne (countable and uncountable, plural duvetynes)

Borrowed from French duvetine, from duvet, from Middle French *dumet, diminutive of Old French dun, dum, ultimately from Old Norse dūnn.

A heavy black cloth used in the motion picture and film industry to block out unwanted light.


lino

From Spanish lino, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom. Displaced balandan. Superseded by linen.

(archaic) linen; thread or cloth made from flax fiber


lino

→ Cebuano: lino

Inherited from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līnom.


homespun

homespun (countable and uncountable, plural homespuns)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-homespun.wav

There are four men, heavily bearded and more than a little dirty, and two young women, all of them busy with shovels in or around an opened grave and all dressed identically in shirts and trousers of tattered homespun.

1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:

Fabric made from homespun yarn. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same.


cheesecloth

cheesecloth (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecloths)

A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.


burnet

English: burnet

Scots: burnet

Borrowed from Old French brunet, brunete (“brunette”).


baja

baja (nominative singular)
baje (nominative plural)
bai (genitive singular)
baj (genitive plural)
bai (dative singular)
bajom (dative plural)
baję (accusative singular)
baje (accusative plural)
bają (instrumental singular)
bajami (instrumental plural)
bai (locative singular)
bajach (locative plural)
bajo (singular vocative)
baje (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Baie, from French baie.


cheviot

cheviot (countable and uncountable, plural cheviots)

A coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep.


cheviot

cheviot (indefinite nominative singular)
cheviots (genitive indefinite singular)
chevioten (definite nominative singular)
cheviotens (definite genitive singular)
chevioter (indefinite nominative plural)
chevioters (genitive indefinite plural)
chevioterna (definite nominative plural)
chevioternas (definite genitive plural)


Hessian

de-noun

Hessian m or n (strong, genitive Hessians or Hessian, no plural)

Hessians (genitive)
Hessian (genitive)
Hessian (definite nominative singular)
Hessians (genitive singular)
Hessian (genitive singular)
Hessian (dative singular)
Hessian (accusative definite singular)

hessian, burlap (a strong, coarse fabric made from hemp or jute)


zibeline

en-noun

zibeline (countable and uncountable, plural zibelines)

A thick, soft woolen fabric with a long nap.


modal

From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”); equivalent to mode + -al. Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale.

der

compounds: micromodal

modal (textile) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(fabric) a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with some chemicals (a semi-synthetic fabric)


modal

From Medieval Latin modalis, from Latin modus 'mode'.

cf modal (textile)


mora

mora (nominative singular)
mory (nominative plural)
mory (genitive singular)
mor (genitive plural)
morze (dative singular)
morom (dative plural)
morę (accusative singular)
mory (accusative plural)
morą (instrumental singular)
morami (instrumental plural)
morze (locative singular)
morach (locative plural)
moro (singular vocative)
mory (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French moire. First attested in 1677–1690. Doublet of moher.

ref

Ewa Rodek (20.02.2023) “MORA II”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

moiré (a fabric, often silk, which has a watery or wavelike appearance)


satin

en-noun

satin (countable and uncountable, plural satins)

From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), from phono-semantic matching from Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.

ltc-l

Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.

1878, Henry Yule, "Chinchew" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 673

A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).

أَطْلَس

cloth with a glossy surface and a dull back


satin

Borrowed from Spanish satén, from French satin, from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”). Doublet of aseytuna and aseytuno.


chenille

en-noun

chenille (countable and uncountable, plural chenilles)

Borrowed from French chenille. Doublet of canicule.

The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed.

1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi:

An extremely soft and bunchy fabric often used to make sweaters.


chenille

→ Catalan: xenilla

→ English: chenille

→ Italian: ciniglia

→ Romanian: șenilă

→ Russian: шине́ль (šinélʹ), шени́лл (šeníll)

Inherited from Latin canīcula (“little dog”) (because of a caterpillar's head). Doublet of canicule.


stof

nl-noun

stof f or m (plural stoffen, diminutive stofje n)

stoffen (plural)
stofje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: stof

Negerhollands: stof

→ Papiamentu: stòf, stof

→ West Frisian: stof

From Middle Dutch stoffe, from Old French estophe, estoffe, from estoffer, from Old High German stoffōn. Compare German Stoff, English stuff.


wollen

English: woollen, woolen

Scots: wollin, wolne, wowne

From Old English wyllen, with influence from wolle, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz; thus equalling wolle + -en (“made of”).

Woollen fabric; fabric made out of woollen thread.


lã

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.
Cognate with Catalan llana, French laine, Galician laa, Italian lana, Occitan lana, Romanian lână and Spanish lana.

inh+

wool (wavy fur of sheep and other animals)


قطر

ar-proper noun

قَطَر • (qaṭar) f

قَطَر (canonical)
qaṭar (romanization)
قَطَر (definite diptote informal singular)
قَطَرُ (definite diptote nominative singular)
قَطَرَ (accusative definite diptote singular)
قَطَرَ (definite diptote genitive singular)

Qatar (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)


lamé

en-noun

lamé (countable and uncountable, plural lamés)

Their king, Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), an epicene seven-footer with a shaved head and what looks like a gold-lamé thong, lounges on cushions in his court, surrounded by aroused lesbians intertwined and writhing like snakes in a basket.

2007 April 2, “Men Gone Wild”, in The New Yorker:

(uncountable) A fabric made from gold or silver threads and silk, wool or cotton.


lamé

→ English: lamé

→ Greek: λαμέ (lamé)

→ Italian: lamé

→ Japanese: ラメ

→ Polish: lama

→ Spanish: lamé

a type of fabric woven or knit with thin ribbons of metallic fiber usually gold or silver, but sometimes copper, in color


durante

From Latin dūrantem (“enduring”), from dūrō (“last, endure”), from dūrus (“hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *drew- (“hard, fest”).

O preço das maçãs subiu durante a guerra.

The price of apples rose during the war.

during (for all of a given time interval)

Um aluno dormiu durante a aula.

during (at any point within a given time interval)


corduroy

corduroy (countable and uncountable, plural corduroys)

Origin uncertain. Probably from cord + duroy (“a 17th century coarse fabric made in England”). Probably not from French *corde du roi (“cloth of the king”), which is unattested in French, where the term for the corduroy is velours côtelé. Possibly from cordesoy (“corde de soie”), or "rope of silk or silk-like fabric" in French), named for example in a 1756 advertisement for clothing fabrics; see Wikipedia article, and comparable in language form to the contemporary serg(e)dusoys (“silk serge”), see Serge (fabric).

compound

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

We turned to see a muscular young man lounging in the door which led into the sitting-room. He wore green corduroy trousers, a duffle coat and an old school tie.

1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind:

A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.


organdy

en-noun

organdy (countable and uncountable, plural organdies)

From French organdi, possibly derived from the French name of the city Urgench.

“I took it to garden-parties after I came out, with my hair curled and an organdie hat on top of the whole thing […].”

1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 317:

Beside them stood a puzzled female dwarf with a hideously rouged face as if ready for the circus; she was clad in white organdie with a marriage veil.

1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445:

A fine, transparent type of muslin, usually stiffened.


oxford

oxford (countable and uncountable, plural oxfords)

The other evening I was doing a very grown-up thing, ironing an oxford cloth shirt for work[…].

2007 March 17, Nicholas Kulish, “How Close Is Too Close to Shane MacGowan and the Pogues?”, in New York Times:

Alternative letter-case form of Oxford (cloth)

Alternative letter-case form of Oxford (shoe)


tweed

tweed (countable and uncountable, plural tweeds)

Attested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“a type of twilled cloth”), attested since the 16th century and related to tweedle; the two words are variants of tweeling and tweel, which go back to Middle English twel, twyle (“a type of woven fabric; twill”), whence also English twill. Scottish tradition says it derives directly from tweel when an English merchant misread tweels or tweeled (cloth) in an 1831 letter from a Scottish merchant as Tweed(s) and took it to be a trade-name based on the River Tweed, but the DSL says evidence for this is lacking, and because English merchants must have been familiar with tweel(ed cloth) before the 1830s, it seems unlikely to be based on misunderstanding tweel rather than on the well-attested tweedle. Several of the earliest citations, from 1839, 1841, and 1845 treat it as a new name for a familiar cloth.

bor

MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called doe-skin, value 17s., […]

1839, Great Britain. Central Criminal Court, Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence, page 75

“Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”

1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:

A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.


swathing

English: swathing


Lycra

en-noun

Lycra (countable and uncountable, plural Lycras)

(uncountable) A type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre (spandex) used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes.

raikara

an elastic synthetic fabric for tight-fitting garments

(uncountable) Clothing made from such materials, especially with reference to cycling shorts.

Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.

2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:

(countable) A tight-fitting garment made of Lycra.


foulard

foulard (countable and uncountable, plural foulards)

A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.


شاش

ar-noun

شَاش • (šāš) m

شَاش (canonical)
šāš (romanization)
شَاش (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الشَّاش (definite informal singular triptote)
شَاش (construct informal singular triptote)
شَاشٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الشَّاشُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
شَاشُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
شَاشًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الشَّاشَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
شَاشَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
شَاشٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الشَّاشِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
شَاشِ (construct genitive singular triptote)

→ English: sash


bure

From Latin burra, nominative feminine singular of burrus.


spandex

en-noun

spandex (usually uncountable, plural spandexes)

Coined as an anagram of the word expands.

A synthetic fibre known for its exceptional elasticity.


газа

га́за (canonical feminine)
gáza (romanization)
газа (nominative singular)
газе (nominative plural)
газе (genitive singular)
газа (genitive plural)
гази (dative singular)
газама (dative plural)
газу (accusative singular)
газе (accusative plural)
газо (singular vocative)
газе (plural vocative)
гази (locative singular)
газама (locative plural)
газом (instrumental singular)
газама (instrumental plural)


gaza

gazowy (adjective)
gaza (nominative singular)
gazy (nominative plural)
gazy (genitive singular)
gaz (genitive plural)
gazie (dative singular)
gazom (dative plural)
gazę (accusative singular)
gazy (accusative plural)
gazą (instrumental singular)
gazami (instrumental plural)
gazie (locative singular)
gazach (locative plural)
gazo (singular vocative)
gazy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz).

(medicine) gauze (cotton fabric used as surgical dressing)


gaza

gáza (canonical feminine)
га́за (Cyrillic)
gaza (nominative singular)
gaze (nominative plural)
gaze (genitive singular)
gaza (genitive plural)
gazi (dative singular)
gazama (dative plural)
gazu (accusative singular)
gaze (accusative plural)
gazo (singular vocative)
gaze (plural vocative)
gazi (locative singular)
gazama (locative plural)
gazom (instrumental singular)
gazama (instrumental plural)


sendal

sendal (countable and uncountable, plural sendals)

And how in sendal wrapt away he bore / That head with him hung at his saddle-bow.

1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, lv

We've crowned our meeting with a close embrace / On quilts where new brocades with sendal blend[…].

1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “uns al- Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter Rose-in-Hood. [Night CCCLXXXI.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume V, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 62:


angora

angora (countable and uncountable, plural angoras)

From the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey, from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).

A goat of a domesticated breed that produces mohair.

Oryctolagus cuniculus
w:Oryctolagus cuniculus

A rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus).

(countable, uncountable) The hair of angora rabbits or angora goats, used to make textiles.

(countable, uncountable) The fabric made from the hair of angora rabbits or angora goats.


paisley

From Paisley, Renfrewshire, in Scotland, where shawls of this kind were woven in the 1800s.

I shall be wearing a Paisley shawl with a red centre, and thus may easily be found.

1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:

He would be in his paisley silk dressing gown.

2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 173:

Made from this fabric, or marked with this design.


ninon

ninon (countable and uncountable, plural ninons)

A sheer fabric of silk, rayon, or nylon made in a variety of tight smooth weaves or open lacy patterns.


cottonade

cottonade (countable and uncountable, plural cottonades)

A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton, generally inferior, coarser, and less durable.


chiffon

chiffon (countable and uncountable, plural chiffons)

Borrowed from French chiffon, from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”), from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”), from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”); see chip.

der

Her dresses are made from these marvelous chiffons.

A lightweight, balanced plain-woven sheer fabric, or gauze, like gossamer, woven of alternate S- and Z-twist crepe (high-twist) yarns made of silk, polyester, or cotton.


chiffon

Unadapted borrowing from French chiffon.


plunket

English: blunket (obsolete)

Potentially from Old Northern French blanket; though this etymology is disputed; more at English blunket.


organza

en-noun

organza (usually uncountable, plural organzas)

Attested since about 1820, of uncertain origin. Suggestions include: alteration of Lorganza (supposedly a trade name at the time for such a fabric) and/or ultimate derivation from Urgench or Old Urgench (supposedly associated with fabric production).

But Pinky, at night, toward the morning, to become a woman, was that it? How the white legs would glow against the fire-colored chiffon and bright pink organza, Pinky's white white legs.

2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 202:

A thin, stiff, sheer fabric that is made from silk or a synthetic yarn, which resembles organdy, and is used in dressmaking.


organza

organza (light, transparent fabric suitable for woman dresses)


lisle

lisle (countable and uncountable, plural lisles)

Named after Lisle, France (now Lille), where it was first produced.

She herself dressed in dark dresses of heavy rayon crêpe, with grey Lisle stockings bound under the knee with two loops of knotted elastic.

1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 11:

He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 41:

A type of strong cotton thread, or a cloth woven from such thread.


mackinaw

mackinaw (countable and uncountable, plural mackinaws)

Respelling of Mackinac, a strait between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, an island in the strait, and an important trading-post on the island; ultimately from Ojibwe mishinii-makinaang (“at the place of many snapping turtles”).

uder

A blanket made of wool, formerly distributed to the Amerindians by the U.S. government.

A flat-bottomed cargo boat; mackinaw boat.


crêpe de Chine

en-noun

crêpe de Chine (countable and uncountable, plural crêpes de Chine)

A fine, thin fabric, usually of silk, that is used to make dresses or blouses.


pashmina

pashmina (countable and uncountable, plural pashminas)

From Persian پشمینه (pašmine). Compare پشمین (pašmin).


toile

toile (countable and uncountable, plural toiles)

Borrowed from French toile. Doublet of tela.

a draft garment made of inexpensive cloth for the purposes of fitting and design evaluation


calico

calico (countable and uncountable, plural calicos or calicoes)

From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).

af

This helix was covered with calico, and then a second wire applied in the same manner.

1832, Michael Faraday, “Experimental Researches in Electricity”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 122, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 126:

Trussed in corsets, jawbone-high collars and calicos that had seen better days, they have little enough to work with, their attempts at coquetry further constrained by their rigid mores of the day.

2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(textiles) A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.

One of them, a calico whose half-grown kittens he just fed, slow-blinks at him, an affectionate gesture.

2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 111:

Tobacco mosaic virus
Tobacco mosaic virus#Translingual

(uncountable, botany) The plant disease caused by Tobacco mosaic virus.


calico

басмен

The calico cat had distinctive red and dark markings.

The calico-patterned tablecloths were supposed to make the restaurant look rustic; instead, they made it look run down.

Sara, oh Sara / Scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress

1976, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Sara”, in Desire:

Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.

Having red, brunette, and blond hair colors, resembling the fur of a calico cat.


warp knit

A knit fabric in which intermeshing loops are positioned in warp, or lengthwise, direction. The fabric has a flatter, closer, less elastic structure than most welt knits and is run-resistant.


charmeuse

en-noun

charmeuse (countable and uncountable, plural charmeuses)

One evening Edith outshone herself, wearing a smartly tailored black charmeuse dress designed especially for her by Worth, the leading Paris designer, and a pair of gold slippers […]

2013, A. Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 359:

A fine semi-lustrous crepe in satin weave.


cretonne

cretonne (countable and uncountable, plural cretonnes)

Mrs. Strickland had moved with the times. Gone were the Morris papers and gone the severe cretonnes, gone were the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawing-room in Ashley Gardens; […]

1919, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 58”, in The Moon and Sixpence:

She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled "Papa" and "Mama."

1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 12, in Main Street:

A strong, heavy fabric of cotton, linen or rayon, used to make curtains and upholstery.


pust

pȕst (canonical masculine)
пу̏ст (Cyrillic)


volna

vółna (canonical feminine)
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vôlna (nominative singular)
vôlni (dual nominative)
vôlne (nominative plural)
vôlne (genitive singular)
vôln (dual genitive)
vôln (genitive plural)
vôlni (dative singular)
vôlnama (dative dual)
vôlnam (dative plural)
vôlno (accusative singular)
vôlni (accusative dual)
vôlne (accusative plural)
vôlni (locative singular)
vôlnah (dual locative)
vôlnah (locative plural)
vôlno (instrumental singular)
vôlnama (dual instrumental)
vôlnami (instrumental plural)

From Proto-Slavic *vьlna (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (“wool”).


byssus

byssus (usually uncountable, plural byssi or byssuses)

From New Latin byssus (“sea silk”), from Latin byssus (“fine cotton or cotton stuff, silk”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it”), from Hebrew בּוּץ (búts), Aramaic בּוּצָא (būṣā).

der

Aramaic בּוּצָא (būṣā)

Sea silk manufactured from these filaments.


byssus

la-noun

byssus f (genitive byssī); second declension

byssī (genitive)
byssus (nominative singular)
byssī (nominative plural)
byssī (genitive singular)
byssōrum (genitive plural)
byssō (dative singular)
byssīs (dative plural)
byssum (accusative singular)
byssōs (accusative plural)
byssō (ablative singular)
byssīs (ablative plural)
bysse (singular vocative)
byssī (plural vocative)

Translingual: Byssus

From Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it”), from Biblical Hebrew בּוּץ (búts), Aramaic בּוש (bus).


borato

en-noun

borato (countable and uncountable, plural boratos or boratoes)


čipka

čȉpka (canonical feminine)
чи̏пка (Cyrillic)
čȉpka (nominative singular)
čipke (nominative plural)
čipke (genitive singular)
čȉpākā (genitive plural)
čȉpkī (genitive plural)
čipci (dative singular)
čipki (dative singular)
čipkama (dative plural)
čipku (accusative singular)
čipke (accusative plural)
čipko (singular vocative)
čipke (plural vocative)
čipci (locative singular)
čipki (locative singular)
čipkama (locative plural)
čipkom (instrumental singular)
čipkama (instrumental plural)

sh-decl-noun

čȉpākā / čȉpkī


čipka

sk-noun

čipka f (related adjective čipkový, diminutive čipôčka)

čipkový (adjective)
čipôčka (diminutive)
nominative
čipka (singular)
čipky (plural)
genitive
čipky (singular)
čipiek (plural)
dative
čipke (singular)
čipkám (plural)
accusative
čipku (singular)
locative
čipkách (plural)
instrumental
čipkou (singular)
čipkami (plural)


čipka

čȋpka (canonical feminine)
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čípka (nominative singular)
čípki (dual nominative)
čípke (nominative plural)
čípke (genitive singular)
čípk (dual genitive)
čípk (genitive plural)
čípki (dative singular)
čípkama (dative dual)
čípkam (dative plural)
čípko (accusative singular)
čípki (accusative dual)
čípke (accusative plural)
čípki (locative singular)
čípkah (dual locative)
čípkah (locative plural)
čípko (instrumental singular)
čípkama (dual instrumental)
čípkami (instrumental plural)


géz

gézek (plural)
géz (nominative singular)
gézek (nominative plural)
gézt (accusative singular)
gézeket (accusative plural)
géznek (dative singular)
gézeknek (dative plural)
gézzel (instrumental singular)
gézekkel (instrumental plural)
gézért (causal-final singular)
gézekért (causal-final plural)
gézzé (singular translative)
gézekké (plural translative)
gézig (singular terminative)
gézekig (plural terminative)
gézként (essive-formal singular)
gézekként (essive-formal plural)
gézben (inessive singular)
gézekben (inessive plural)
gézen (singular superessive)
gézeken (plural superessive)
géznél (adessive singular)
gézeknél (adessive plural)
gézbe (illative singular)
gézekbe (illative plural)
gézre (singular sublative)
gézekre (plural sublative)
gézhez (allative singular)
gézekhez (allative plural)
gézből (elative singular)
gézekből (elative plural)
gézről (delative singular)
gézekről (delative plural)
géztől (ablative singular)
gézektől (ablative plural)
gézé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
gézeké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
gézéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
gézekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
gézem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
gézeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
gézed (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
gézeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
géze (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
gézei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
gézünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
gézeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
gézetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
gézeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
gézük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
gézeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Either from German Gaze or French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).

(medicine) gauze (a thin fabric with a loose, open weave used as a surgical dressing)


serge

en-noun

serge (countable and uncountable, plural serges)

From Middle English sarge, from Old French sarge, serge, from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica (“silken, silk things”), from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*sə, “silk”). Doublet of silk and seric.

der

(by metonymy) A garment made of this fabric.


serge

→ English: serge

Inherited from Middle French sarge, from Old French sarge, from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica, ultimately from the Ancient Greek σηρῐκός (sērikós, “silken”).


challis

en-noun

challis (countable and uncountable, plural challises)

"Not all, mamma, because you told us we must find our own dresses, and so we did of course; we bought our winter clothing, and then our summer bonnets, and our challis pour demi saison, and our———"

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 9:

A light, soft fabric of silk and worsted, having a printed design.


grosgrain

grosgrain (countable and uncountable, plural grosgrains)

/ˈɡɹəʊɡɹeɪn/

Borrowed from French gros-grain (“coarse grain, a strong fabric”), from gros (“coarse”) + grain (“grain”). Doublet of grogram, which was borrowed earlier.

bor

He was on a leash, I realized. The grosgrain strap was wrapped around her hand.

2022, Ling Ma, “Returning”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:


boucle

en-noun

boucle (countable and uncountable, plural boucles)


Samt

de-noun

Samt m (strong, genitive Samtes or Samts, plural Samte)

Samtes (genitive)
Samts (genitive)
Samte (plural)
Samt (nominative singular)
Samte (definite nominative plural)
Samtes (genitive singular)
Samts (genitive singular)
Samte (definite genitive plural)
Samt (dative singular)
Samte (dative singular)
Samten (dative definite plural)
Samt (accusative singular)
Samte (accusative definite plural)

From older Sammet, from Middle High German samīt, from Old French samit, from Late Latin samitum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάμιτος (hexámitos, literally “six-ply”), from ἕξ (héx) + μίτος (mítos, “thread of the warp”).


pellicule

Borrowed from Latin pellicula (“small skin or hide”), from pellis (“a skin”) + -cula. Cognate with French pellicule, Spanish película.


jacquard

en-noun

jacquard (countable and uncountable, plural jacquards)

Eponym, from Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom.

The White House has jacquard drapes in the East Room.


muslin

muslin (usually uncountable, plural muslins)

From French mousseline, from Italian mussolina, from Mussolo (“Mosul”), that is Mosul in northern Iraq (compare 1875 Knight, Edward H., Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, V2 p1502: "Muslins are so called from Moussol in India."). Doublet of mousseline.

Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.

1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, volume 2, pages 1502–1503:

(US) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.


muslin

muslinuri (plural)
muslin (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
muslinul (accusative definite nominative singular)
muslinuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
muslinurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
muslin (indefinite singular)
muslinului (definite singular)
muslinuri (indefinite plural)
muslinurilor (definite plural)
muslinule (singular vocative)
muslinurilor (plural vocative)


barras

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


celta

celta (nominative singular)
celty (nominative plural)
celty (genitive singular)
celt (genitive plural)
celcie (dative singular)
celtom (dative plural)
celtę (accusative singular)
celty (accusative plural)
celtą (instrumental singular)
celtami (instrumental plural)
celcie (locative singular)
celtach (locative plural)
celto (singular vocative)
celty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Zelt. Compare Silesian celt.


jaconet

jaconet (countable and uncountable, plural jaconets)

/ˈd͡ʒækənɪt/

From Hindi जगन्नाथ (jagannāth) / Urdu جگنّاتھ (jagannāth), former name of Puri in India, where the material came from. Compare juggernaut.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.

1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

It really was beautifully executed, more like a forgery than a copy, for the copyist had laid it down on a jaconet backing and had even added a cachet de vente, a couple of collectors’ marks and a museum reference number.

1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 321:

A type of cotton cloth, especially as dyed and waterproofed.


branda

head

branda (definite accusative brandayı, plural brandalar)

brandayı (accusative definite)
brandalar (plural)
branda (nominative singular)
brandalar (nominative plural)
brandayı (accusative definite singular)
brandaları (accusative definite plural)
brandaya (dative singular)
brandalara (dative plural)
brandada (locative singular)
brandalarda (locative plural)
brandadan (ablative singular)
brandalardan (ablative plural)
brandanın (genitive singular)
brandaların (genitive plural)
brandam (first-person nominative singular)
brandalarım (first-person nominative singular)
brandan (nominative second-person singular)
brandaların (nominative second-person singular)
brandası (nominative singular third-person)
brandaları (nominative singular third-person)
brandamız (first-person nominative plural)
brandalarımız (first-person nominative plural)
brandanız (nominative plural second-person)
brandalarınız (nominative plural second-person)
brandaları (nominative plural third-person)
brandamı (accusative definite first-person singular)
brandalarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
brandanı (accusative definite second-person singular)
brandalarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
brandasını (accusative definite singular third-person)
brandalarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
brandamızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
brandalarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
brandanızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
brandalarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
brandalarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
brandama (dative first-person singular)
brandalarıma (dative first-person singular)
brandana (dative second-person singular)
brandalarına (dative second-person singular)
brandasına (dative singular third-person)
brandalarına (dative singular third-person)
brandamıza (dative first-person plural)
brandalarımıza (dative first-person plural)
brandanıza (dative plural second-person)
brandalarınıza (dative plural second-person)
brandalarına (dative plural third-person)
brandamda (first-person locative singular)
brandalarımda (first-person locative singular)
brandanda (locative second-person singular)
brandalarında (locative second-person singular)
brandasında (locative singular third-person)
brandalarında (locative singular third-person)
brandamızda (first-person locative plural)
brandalarımızda (first-person locative plural)
brandanızda (locative plural second-person)
brandalarınızda (locative plural second-person)
brandalarında (locative plural third-person)
brandamdan (ablative first-person singular)
brandalarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
brandandan (ablative second-person singular)
brandalarından (ablative second-person singular)
brandasından (ablative singular third-person)
brandalarından (ablative singular third-person)
brandamızdan (ablative first-person plural)
brandalarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
brandanızdan (ablative plural second-person)
brandalarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
brandalarından (ablative plural third-person)
brandamın (first-person genitive singular)
brandalarımın (first-person genitive singular)
brandanın (genitive second-person singular)
brandalarının (genitive second-person singular)
brandasının (genitive singular third-person)
brandalarının (genitive singular third-person)
brandamızın (first-person genitive plural)
brandalarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
brandanızın (genitive plural second-person)
brandalarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
brandalarının (genitive plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish برانده (buranda, “a sailor's hammock”), from Italian branda. Cognates with Greek μπράντα (bránta).

inh

(nautical) Thick, waterproof cloth used on ships; canvas, boat canvas.


brilliantine

en-noun

brilliantine (countable and uncountable, plural brilliantines)

Bathing Suit of Brilliantine in Navy Blue and Black, trimmed with white mohair braid and buttons (no bloomers). Special 3.95

1916 June 11, The New York Times, number 112:

A smooth shiny, luxurious fabric, often of alpaca or vicuña.


worsted

worsted (countable and uncountable, plural worsteds)

Inherited from Middle English worstede, worsted, from Worstede (now Worstead; Old English *Wurϸestede), a town in Norfolk, England.

An old set-stitched chair, valanced and fringed around with party-coloured worsted bobs, stood at the bed’s head opposite to the side where my father’s head reclined.

1761, Laurence Sterne, chapter 29, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III:

[…] the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again […]

1871, Lewis Carroll, chapter 1, in Through the Looking-Glass:

"Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others," said Mrs Garth. She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted, knitting her brow at it with a grand air.

1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LVII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI, page 266:

Finally he took a ball of worsted and tied strings of it across the back passage and across the opposite door.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(textiles) Yarn made from long strands of wool.

[...] the undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark: forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated ‘kitchen’; wherein sat a slatternly girl, in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair.

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 4, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck -- Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge -- an ornament -- a charm -- a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it?

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn.


canapa

From Late Latin canapa, from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis); see there for more. Doublet of the borrowing cannabis. Compare Sicilian cànnavu and English canvas.

Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativa#Translingual

(collective) the fibers of the hemp plant


chintz

chintz (countable and uncountable, plural chintzes)

The morning air waved to and fro the chintz curtains of a large and, for a London one, a very cheerful-looking room, whose windows opened to the Thames.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Chamber of Death”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:

He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, […] a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam. He found some glasses which didn't look very clean and polished them on a chintz window curtain.

1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:

A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.


broadcloth

broadcloth (countable and uncountable, plural broadcloths)

A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.


camlet

camlet (countable and uncountable, plural camlets)

From Middle English chamelet, chamelot, chamlot via Old French chamelot, suffixed + -ot from Arabic خَمْلَة (ḵamla, “velvet”).

She wore a sort of jacket of bright red camlet, richly braided with gold and silver lace; a fringe of which also hung from her gray petticoat, which was short enough to show her feet and ankles, whose small size was rendered more remarkable by the peculiar-shaped boot.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 216–217:

She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace.

1893, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Holding of the Door”, in The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents, volume I, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, [part I (In the Old World)], page 56:

A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.


camlet

en-adj

camlet (comparative more camlet, superlative most camlet)

more camlet (comparative)
most camlet (superlative)

This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.

1660 July 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “July 1st, 1660 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 190:

With this announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the Blue Dragon, and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself, who was wrapped in an old blue camlet cloak with a lining of faded scarlet.

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter IV, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 36:


корт

uk-noun

корт • (kort) m inan (genitive ко́рту, uncountable)

kort (romanization)
ко́рту (genitive)
корт (nominative singular)
ко́рту (genitive singular)
ко́ртові (dative singular)
ко́рту (dative singular)
корт (accusative singular)
ко́ртом (instrumental singular)
ко́рту (locative singular)
ко́рті (locative singular)
ко́рте (singular vocative)

(textiles) a cotton fabric for outerwear


terciopelo

es-noun

terciopelo m (countable and uncountable, plural terciopelos)

velvet (closely woven fabric with a thick short pile on one side)


שש

he-noun

שֵׁשׁ • (shésh) m


barathea

en-noun

barathea (countable and uncountable, plural baratheas)

A soft fabric, made from various combinations of wool, silk and cotton, with a lightly ribbed surface.


velours

→ Danish: velour

→ English: velour

→ Turkish: velur

Inherited from Old French velor, an alteration of velos, either from velu (“hairy”) + -os (“-ous”), or a borrowing from Old Occitan velos; either way, from Latin villus. Cognate with English velvet and a doublet of villeux.


velour

velour (countable and uncountable, plural velours)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-velour.wav

Borrowed from French velours (“velvet”).

A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser.

велур

a knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser


velour

Unadapted borrowing from French velours.

velour (a knit fabric similar to velvet)


առագաստ

head

առագաստ • (aṙagast)

hy-noun

առագաստ • (aṙagast)

aṙagast (romanization)
առագաստ (nominative singular)
առագաստներ (nominative plural)
առագաստի (dative singular)
առագաստների (dative plural)
առագաստից (ablative singular)
առագաստներից (ablative plural)
առագաստով (instrumental singular)
առագաստներով (instrumental plural)
առագաստում (locative singular)
առագաստներում (locative plural)
առագաստը (definite nominative singular)
առագաստն (definite nominative singular)
առագաստները (definite nominative plural)
առագաստներն (definite nominative plural)
առագաստին (dative definite singular)
առագաստներին (dative definite plural)
առագաստս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
առագաստներս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
առագաստիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
առագաստներիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
առագաստիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
առագաստներիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
առագաստովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
առագաստներովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
առագաստումս (first-person locative possessive singular)
առագաստներումս (first-person locative plural possessive)
առագաստդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
առագաստներդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
առագաստիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
առագաստներիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
առագաստիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
առագաստներիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
առագաստովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
առագաստներովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)
առագաստումդ (locative possessive second-person singular)
առագաստներումդ (locative plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

առագաստը/առագաստն

առագաստները/առագաստներն

առագաստներին

առագաստներից

առագաստներով

առագաստներում

առագաստներիս

առագաստներիցս

առագաստներովս

առագաստներումս

առագաստներիդ

առագաստներիցդ

առագաստներովդ

առագաստներումդ

Hy-առագաստ.ogg

From Old Armenian առագաստ (aṙagast). The word must have also meant “room”, whence by extension “wine-pressing room” → “wine-press”.


առագաստ

head

առագաստ • (aṙagast)

xcl-noun

առագաստ • (aṙagast)

aṙagast (romanization)
առագաստ (nominative singular)
առագաստք (nominative plural)
առագաստի (genitive singular)
առագաստից (genitive plural)
առագաստի (dative singular)
առագաստից (dative plural)
առագաստ (accusative singular)
առագաստս (accusative plural)
առագաստէ (ablative singular)
առագաստից (ablative plural)
առագաստիւ (instrumental singular)
առագաստիւք (instrumental plural)
առագաստի (locative singular)
առագաստս (locative plural)
առագաստ (nominative singular)
առագաստք (nominative plural)
առագաստի (genitive singular)
առագաստաց (genitive plural)
առագաստի (dative singular)
առագաստաց (dative plural)
առագաստ (accusative singular)
առագաստս (accusative plural)
առագաստէ (ablative singular)
առագաստաց (ablative plural)
առագաստաւ (instrumental singular)
առագաստի (locative singular)
առագաստս (locative plural)

xcl-decl-noun

առագաստաւք = առագաստօք

Armenian: առագաստ (aṙagast)

From the preposition առ (aṙ) + ագ- (ag-, “to put on clothes”) + -ստ (-st). Alternatively, from the same preposition առա- (aṙa-) + Proto-Armenian *wst-, from Proto-Indo-European *us-t-h₂-ós, *us-t-h₂-ós, genitive of *wés-t-eh₂-, from *wes- (“to be dressed”), whence զգեստ (zgest), and cognate with Ancient Greek ἐσθής (esthḗs).

affix

(figuratively) pretext meant to hide something


麻布

/muã²⁴⁻²² pɔ²¹/

/muã²⁴⁻²² pɔ⁴¹/

/muã¹³⁻²² pɔ²¹/

/muã²⁴⁻¹¹ pɔ¹¹/

/muã²³⁻³³ pɔ²¹/

/muã²⁴⁻²² pɔ²¹/

/muã²⁴⁻²² pɔ⁴¹/

/muã¹³⁻²² pɔ²¹/

/muã²⁴⁻¹¹ pɔ¹¹/

/muã²³⁻³³ pɔ²¹/


麻布

Compound of Old Japanese elements 麻 (asa, “hemp, ramie”) + 布 (nuno, “woven cloth other than silk”).

compound

cloth woven of hemp or ramie, similar to linen


麻布

Daijirin
Hemp#Fiber
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
ja:麻織物

Compound of 麻 (asa, “hemp, ramie”) + 布 (fu, “woven cloth”). This uses the on'yomi of fu for 布, deriving from Middle Chinese 布 (puᴴ); compare modern Mandarin reading bù.

(obsolete) cloth woven of hemp or ramie, similar to linen


麻布

From Middle Chinese compound 麻布 (mæ puᴴ). Compare modern Mandarin reading mábù.

(rare) cloth woven of hemp or ramie, similar to linen


batiste

en-noun

batiste (countable and uncountable, plural batistes)

From French batiste, a form of Baptiste, of disputed origin (“according to Littré and Scheler from the alleged original maker, Baptiste of Cambray; according to others, from its use in wiping the heads of children after baptism” – OED).

Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.

1916, “Smocking”, in The Dressmaker: A Complete Book on All Matters Connected with Sewing and Dressmaking […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y., London: The Butterick Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 29:

Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104

He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 88:

A fine cloth made from cotton or linen; cambric.


whipcord

whipcord (countable and uncountable, plural whipcords)

A strong worsted fabric, with a diagonal rib.


moleskin

pl-noun

moleskin m inan (related adjective moleskinowy)

moleskinowy (adjective)
moleskin (nominative singular)
moleskiny (nominative plural)
moleskinu (genitive singular)
moleskinów (genitive plural)
moleskinowi (dative singular)
moleskinom (dative plural)
moleskin (accusative singular)
moleskiny (accusative plural)
moleskinem (instrumental singular)
moleskinami (instrumental plural)
moleskinie (locative singular)
moleskinach (locative plural)
moleskinie (singular vocative)
moleskiny (plural vocative)


gingham

en-noun

gingham (countable and uncountable, plural ginghams)

From Malay genggang (“ajar; apart”), or a corruption of French Guingamp, the name of a town in Brittany, France, where this cloth may have been made.

Aunt Elizabeth had produced a terrible gingham apron and an equally terrible gingham sunbonnet from somewhere in the New Moon garret, and made Emily put them on. The apron was a long sack-like garment, high in the neck, with sleeves.

1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:

Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.

2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

(uncountable) A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks.

格子棉布

a cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks


gingham

ginghamen (definite singular)
ginghamer (indefinite plural)
ginghamene (definite plural)


gingham

ginghamen (definite singular)
ginghamar (indefinite plural)
ginghamane (definite plural)


pociąg

pl-noun

pociąg m inan (related adjective pociągowy)

pociągowy (adjective)
pociąg (nominative singular)
pociągi (nominative plural)
pociągu (genitive singular)
pociągów (genitive plural)
pociągowi (dative singular)
pociągom (dative plural)
pociąg (accusative singular)
pociągi (accusative plural)
pociągiem (instrumental singular)
pociągami (instrumental plural)
pociągu (locative singular)
pociągach (locative plural)
pociągu (singular vocative)
pociągi (plural vocative)

/ˈpɔ.t͡ɕɔŋk/

Deverbal from pociągać. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French train, English train, and German Zug. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French inclination. First attested in 1550.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

(Middle Polish, construction) traverse holding up a wooden construction

(Middle Polish, sailing) sail (piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along; the sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars, and ropes)


tissu

English: tissue

Scots: tishie

Borrowed from Old French tissu, past participle of tistre.
Forms with /ʃ/ do not reflect palatalisation of /s/ (as in modern English); instead, they exist because Old French /s(s)/ was perceived as being phonetically closer to Middle English /ʃ/ than to /s/.


herringbone

en-noun

herringbone (countable and uncountable, plural herringbones)

/ˈhɛɹɪŋˌboʊn/

For some strange and elusive reason, the staid, prosaic herringbones have angled themselves into a position of fashion prominence.

Twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines.


burlap

burlap (countable and uncountable, plural burlaps)

Uncertain. Attested since about 1695 in the spelling bore-lap, borelapp. Likely from burel (“a coarse woollen cloth”) + lap (“flap of a garment”), where the first element is from Middle English burel, borel. Others feel that "its character and time of appearance makes a Dutch origin very likely" (and the earliest references as to its importation from the Netherlands); the NED suggests derivation from Dutch boenlap (“coarse, rubbing linen or cloth”) with the first element perhaps confused with boer; Bense instead suggests derivation from an unattested Dutch *boerenlap, where *boeren supposedly has an extended sense of "coarse" as in Dutch boerenkost (“coarse, heavy food as is eaten by farmers”) and boerengoed (from Dutch boer (“farmer, peasant”); compare English boor), though this word is not attested.

cog

“A ranger responded and found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring,” she said. A cooking pot was also found nearby.

2020 November 11, Johnny Diaz, Concepción de León, “3 Visitors Banned From Yellowstone After Cooking Chickens in Hot Spring”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US) A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.


crinoline

en-noun

crinoline (countable and uncountable, plural crinolines)

A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.

These standards have not just been oppressive but deadly. In the nineteenth century, stiff crinoline petticoats puffed out skirts so far that the cheap materials often brushed against open flames and caught fire. This arbitrary convention of dress caused three thousand women to be burned alive.

2022, W. David Marx, chapter 4, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.

Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.

Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.


crinoline

From Latin crinis (“hair”) + linum (“flax”).


tricot

tricot (countable and uncountable, plural tricots)

From French tricot, from tricoter (“to knit”).


lisse

lisse (countable and uncountable, plural lisses)

A fine sheer fabric of silk or cotton used in women's neckwear and in ruching.


sackcloth

sackcloth (countable and uncountable, plural sackcloths)

From Middle English sakcloth, sekcloth, sekclath, sekklath. By surface analysis, sack + cloth.

A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.

After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes.

Next you saw her alone, a kneeling penitent at the foot of the crucifix; her long fair hair is unbound, and the sackcloth robe is girded by a cord round her slender shape: her hands are clasped, and tears are flowing fast from the quenched radiance of those shadowy eyes;...

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 144:

No more ashes, no more sackcloth / And an armband made of black cloth / Will someday never more adorn a sleeve

1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:

(usually with “and ashes”, also figurative) Garments worn as an act of penance.

քուրձ

figuratively: garment worn as act of penance


suiting

suiting (countable and uncountable, plural suitings)

In addition to men's suitings and ladies' costumings the firm also produces man-made fabrics for filtration and protective clothing.

1973, Charles Hadfield, Alice Mary Hadfield, The Cotswolds: A New Study, page 203:


sailcloth

sailcloth (usually uncountable, plural sailcloths)

From Middle English seylecloth, saylclath, seil-cloþ, seil-clæð, from Old English *seġlclāþ, equivalent to sail + cloth. Cognate with West Frisian seilkleed, Dutch zeilkleed, Middle Low German sēgelklêt, sēgelkleit, seilklêt, seilkleit, German Segelkleid.

A strong, durable fabric suitable for making sails for ships or boats.


Gore-Tex

Named after American inventor Robert W. Gore (1937–2020) and textile.

named-after

A synthetic ePTFE (Teflon) fabric that is permeable to water vapour but impermeable to water drops; used for making breathable rainwear.


cubica

en-noun

cubica (countable and uncountable, plural cubicas)

A fine unglazed fabric resembling shalloon.


ichcatl

Mecayapan Nahuatl: ichca'

Tetelcingo Nahuatl: ichcatl

Algodon. ychcatl.

1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 25r:

Algodon. ychcatl.

1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 8r. col. 2:

Idem, f. 32r. col. 2.

Oueja.ychcatl.ciuaichcatl.

1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 186r:

Ganado menudo. ychcame. tentzoneque. &c.

1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 65r. col. 1:

Lesser cattle. ychcame. tentzoneque. etc.

Idem, f. 91r. col. 2.
Oueja. ychcatl. ciuaichcatl.
A sheep. ychcatl. ciuaichatl.

Idem, f. 32r. col. 2.
Ichcame. hato de ouejas, o manada dellas. […] / Ichcatl . algodón, o oueja.
Ichcame. a group of sheep, or a herd of them. […] / Ichcatl. cotton, or a sheep.


ichcatl

Cognate with Classical Nahuatl ichcatl, Mecayapan Nahuatl ichca'.


клин

klin (romanization)
клин (indefinite singular)
кли́нове (indefinite plural)
кли́не (dialectal indefinite plural)
кли́нът (definite singular subjective)
кли́новете (definite plural subjective)
кли́нете (definite dialectal plural subjective)
кли́на (definite objective singular)
кли́новете (definite objective plural)
кли́нете (definite dialectal objective plural)
кли́на (count-form plural)

bg-ndecl

клин<+ове+е􂀿d􂁀>


клин

ru-noun+

клин • (klin) m inan (genitive кли́на, nominative plural кли́нья, genitive plural кли́ньев)

klin (romanization)
кли́на (genitive)
кли́нья (nominative plural)
кли́ньев (genitive plural)
кли́н (nominative singular)
кли́нья (irregular nominative plural)
кли́на (genitive singular)
кли́ньев (genitive irregular plural)
кли́ну (dative singular)
кли́ньям (dative irregular plural)
кли́н (accusative singular)
кли́нья (accusative irregular plural)
кли́ном (instrumental singular)
кли́ньями (instrumental irregular plural)
кли́не (prepositional singular)
кли́ньях (irregular plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: klina


purpura

purpura (nominative singular)
purpury (genitive singular)
purpurze (dative singular)
purpurę (accusative singular)
purpurą (instrumental singular)
purpurze (locative singular)
purpuro (singular vocative)


ریشم

reśam (romanization)
रेशम (Hindi)
ریشم (direct singular)
ریشم (direct plural)
ریشم (oblique singular)
ریشموں (oblique plural)
ریشم (singular vocative)
ریشمو (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Classical Persian ریشم (rēšam), a variant of ابریشم (abrēšam, abrēšum, “silk”), from Middle Persian ʾp̄lyš(w)m (abrēšom, “silk”).


svila

svíla (canonical feminine)
сви́ла (Cyrillic)
svila (nominative singular)
svile (nominative plural)
svile (genitive singular)
svila (genitive plural)
svili (dative singular)
svilama (dative plural)
svilu (accusative singular)
svile (accusative plural)
svilo (singular vocative)
svile (plural vocative)
svili (locative singular)
svilama (locative plural)
svilom (instrumental singular)
svilama (instrumental plural)


svila

svȋla (canonical feminine)
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svíla (nominative singular)
svíle (genitive singular)
svíli (dative singular)
svílo (accusative singular)
svíli (locative singular)
svílo (instrumental singular)


свила

bg-noun

сви́ла • (svíla) f (relational adjective сви́лен)

сви́ла (canonical)
svíla (romanization)
сви́лен (adjective relational)
сви́ла (indefinite singular)
сви́лата (definite singular)

плат сви́ла

ни́шки сви́ла


raso

Borrowed from Spanish raso, from Latin rāsus.


damasco

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese damasco, from Damasco (“Damascus”).


unidirectional

[ˌjuː.nɪ̈.dɪ̈ˈɹɛk.ʃə.nl̩

A fabric in which the majority of fibers run in the same single direction.


seersucker

en-noun

seersucker (countable and uncountable, plural seersuckers)

→ French: seersucker

→ German: Seersucker

/ˈsɪɹˌsʌk.ɚ/

/ˈsɪəˌsʌk.ə/

From Hindi शीरशक्कर (śīrśakkar), from Persian شیر و شکر (šir o šekar, literally “milk and sugar”), modified by folk etymology, originally alluding to the smooth (“milk”) and rough (“sugar”) surface of the stripes.

der

I saw merely a lank, commonplace, and simple-looking farmer, going about his chores in faded blue overalls, a seersucker shirt, and a straw hat of the kind that is called a "cow's breakfast."

1919, Harvey J. O'Higgins, “Benjamin McNeil Murdock”, in From the Life:

(textiles) A thin, all-cotton fabric, commonly striped, used to make clothing for summer wear.

(countable) An article made from such fabric.


sharkskin

en-noun

sharkskin (countable and uncountable, plural sharkskins)

A shiny fabric made from synthetic fibers.


swansdown

swansdown (usually uncountable, plural swansdowns)


ткань

ru-noun+

ткань • (tkanʹ) f inan (genitive тка́ни, nominative plural тка́ни, genitive plural тка́ней, relational adjective тка́невый)

tkanʹ (romanization)
тка́ни (genitive)
тка́ни (nominative plural)
тка́ней (genitive plural)
тка́невый (adjective relational)
тка́нь (nominative singular)
тка́ни (nominative plural)
тка́ни (genitive singular)
тка́ней (genitive plural)
тка́ни (dative singular)
тка́ням (dative plural)
тка́нь (accusative singular)
тка́ни (accusative plural)
тка́нью (instrumental singular)
тка́нями (instrumental plural)
тка́ни (prepositional singular)
тка́нях (plural prepositional)
тка́нь (dated nominative singular)
тка́ни (dated nominative plural)
тка́ни (dated genitive singular)
тка́ней (dated genitive plural)
тка́ни (dated dative singular)
тка́нямъ (dated dative plural)
тка́нь (accusative dated singular)
тка́ни (accusative dated plural)
тка́нью (dated instrumental singular)
тка́нями (dated instrumental plural)
тка́ни (dated prepositional singular)
тка́няхъ (dated plural prepositional)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъkanь, derived from ткать (tkatʹ, “to weave”), from Proto-Slavic *tъkati, from Proto-Indo-European *trūk-, *trūg- (“to press, beat”).


shantung

en-noun

shantung (countable and uncountable, plural shantungs)

→ Tagalog: siyantung

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 山東／山东 (Shāndōng), Shantung.

The yellow beer, the light shantung suit and the gleaming white teeth were all alight with the trembling silver reflections that sprang from the sunlight on the water.

1963, H. E. Bates, “Major of Hussars”, in Seven by Five:

A heavy fabric, with a rough surface, made from wild silk.

A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.


camelhair

camelhair (countable and uncountable, plural camelhairs)


cambric

cambric (countable and uncountable, plural cambrics)

From Cambrai, a French commune where it was manufactured.

Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?

1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins, […], 1665, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

Scotch cambric, now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation cambric, made from fine hard-twisted cotton.

1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851

His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through.

1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 14, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1999:

A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.


haircloth

haircloth (countable and uncountable, plural haircloths)

Cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse.

ܣܩܐ

cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse


chambray

chambray (countable and uncountable, plural chambrays)

From French cambrai (“cambric”), and its source, Cambrai, the city in France where it originated; probably with alteration after chamber.

She lies wrapped in a book muslin bedgown, a chambray gauze shift, and a french net nightcap.

1793, Jane Austen, “A beautiful description of the different effects of Sensibility on different Minds”, in Juvenilia:

I had bought some jeans and a couple of blue chambray workshirts to replace the kitchen-whites, but such clothes weren't nearly enough.

Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.

A soft fabric woven with a white weft and coloured warp.


ticking

tick (“sheet, cover”) + -ing (“material, collection”).

suffix

Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, “chapter 1”, in Captains Courageous:

A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.


tabinet

en-noun

tabinet (countable and uncountable, plural tabinets)

His mother had worked for him as a birthday present a waistcoat of purple tabinet, with little foxes's heads upon it, lined with brown satin and having round mulberry buttons.

1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC:

A material made from wool and silk, used for curtains or clothes


tapeta

[t̪ɐˈpɛː.t̪ɐ]

Borrowed from English taffeta, from Late Middle English, from Old French taffetas, from Medieval Latin taffata, from Classical Persian تافته (tāfta). Doublet of tapetan.


galatea

After Galatea, a British man-of-war, since the material was used for children's sailor suits.

(textiles) A strong cotton fabric with diagonal twill weave.


Donegal

Donegal (countable and uncountable, plural Donegals)

/ˌdʌnɪˈɡɔːl/

/ˌdɒnɪˈɡɔːl/

/ˌdʌniˈɡɔːl/

Anglicization of Irish Dún na nGall (literally “fort of the foreigners or strangers”).

bor

A type of coarse tweed made in this county.


nukka

nukka (nominative singular)
nukat (nominative plural)
nukan (genitive singular)
nukkiin (genitive plural)
nukkaa (partitive singular)
nukkia (partitive plural)
nukkaa (illative singular)
nukkii (illative plural)
nukas (inessive singular)
nukis (inessive plural)
nukast (elative singular)
nukist (elative plural)
nukalle (allative singular)
nukille (allative plural)
nukal (adessive singular)
nukil (adessive plural)
nukalt (ablative singular)
nukilt (ablative plural)
nukaks (singular translative)
nukiks (plural translative)
nukkanna (essive singular)
nukkaan (essive singular)
nukkinna (essive plural)
nukkiin (essive plural)
nukkant (exessive singular)
nukkint (exessive plural)

Cognates include dialectal Finnish nukka and Estonian nukk.


merino

en-noun

merino (countable and uncountable, plural merinos)

"Oh, mamma," cried Georgiana, and the speech was heroic for her who dearly loved dress, "I would rather wear my merino, and then I should keep Isabella in countenance."

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 89:


sròl

head

sròl m (genitive singular sròil, plural sròlan)

sròil (genitive singular)
sròlan (plural)

Borrowed from Latin stragulus (“covering”). Cognate with Irish sról.


anart

anart m (genitive singular anairt, plural anartan)

anairt (genitive singular)
anartan (plural)
anart
n-anart


reredos

English: reredos

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman reredos, areredos; equivalent to rere (“rear, following”) + Old French dos (“back”).

A reredos or retable; a panel at the back of an altar.

A dorsal; a hanging or tapestry at the back of an altar.

(rare) A panel of armour for protecting the rear.


barchan

pl-noun

barchan m inan (related adjective barchanowy)

barchanowy (adjective)
barchan (nominative singular)
barchany (nominative plural)
barchanu (genitive singular)
barchanów (genitive plural)
barchanowi (dative singular)
barchanom (dative plural)
barchan (accusative singular)
barchany (accusative plural)
barchanem (instrumental singular)
barchanami (instrumental plural)
barchanie (locative singular)
barchanach (locative plural)
barchanie (singular vocative)
barchany (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: barchón


pinstriping

The application of pinstripes to a fabric


brede

English: bread (“breadth”) (dialectal)

Scots: brede, breid

From Old English brǣdu, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *braidī, from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄.

breadth (measure of how wide something is):


bombazine

en-noun

bombazine (countable and uncountable, plural bombazines)

From Middle French bombasin, from Late Latin bombasinum, ultimately from bombyx (“silkworm”).

I watched the animated widows in their bombazine dresses, capping each other's memories.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 144:

A twilled or corded fabric made from silk, wool, or cotton dyed black.


bombazine

Inherited from Middle French bombasin (m), in the feminine form; Late Latin bombasinum, ultimately from bombyx (“silkworm”).

Perhaps she had new boots with a higher heel. Under the swirl of her black bombazine skirt it was not possible to tell.

2012, Anne Perry, translated by Florence Bertrand, Dorchester Terrace:


brezent

brezent (nominative singular)
brezenty (nominative plural)
brezentu (genitive singular)
brezentów (genitive plural)
brezentowi (dative singular)
brezentom (dative plural)
brezent (accusative singular)
brezenty (accusative plural)
brezentem (instrumental singular)
brezentami (instrumental plural)
brezencie (locative singular)
brezentach (locative plural)
brezencie (singular vocative)
brezenty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Russian брезе́нт (brezént), from Dutch presenning.

bor+

tarpaulin (heavy, waterproof sheet of material)


bagging

bootstrap aggregating
bootstrap aggregating


shirting

en-noun

shirting (countable and uncountable, plural shirtings)


houndstooth

From hound + -s- + tooth, from its appearance.
Although the pattern itself is archaeologically found from time immemorial, the modern term is first attested in 1936.

Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.

1970, Men's Wear, volume 161, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Publications, →OCLC, page 73, column 1:

Her dress is wool too, brown and black houndsteeth that belonged to her mother.

2014, Jacinda Townsend, “Jupiter”, in Saint Monkey: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 68:

Fabric with a houndstooth pattern; an item of clothing made with such fabric.


毛布

Probably an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 毛布 (máobù, literally “hair + cloth”), using the expected Japanese readings of the characters. First cited to a text from 1867 with the sense wool fabric.


بز

Turkish: bez

→ Crimean Tatar: böz

→ Chuvash: пӳс (püs)

→ Laz: ბეზი (bezi)

→ Russian: бязь (bjazʹ), безь (bezʹ)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: бе̏з

Latin script: bȅz

Borrowed from Arabic بَزّ (bazz), although probably under the influence of Byzantine Greek βύσσος (bússos). Cognates include Old Turkic 𐰋𐰕 (böz), Karakhanid بُوزْ (bȫz), Chagatai بوز (böz), Uyghur بۆز (böz), Turkmen biz and Chuvash пир (pir).

cloth, vestment, fabric (a generic term, indistinctive of whether it is a fabric or a garment)


pali

palïau (plural)
pali
bali (soft)
mhali
phali


cerata

pl-noun

cerata f (diminutive ceratka, related adjective ceratowy)

ceratka (diminutive)
ceratowy (adjective)
cerata (nominative singular)
ceraty (nominative plural)
ceraty (genitive singular)
cerat (genitive plural)
ceracie (dative singular)
ceratom (dative plural)
ceratę (accusative singular)
ceraty (accusative plural)
ceratą (instrumental singular)
ceratami (instrumental plural)
ceracie (locative singular)
ceratach (locative plural)
cerato (singular vocative)
ceraty (plural vocative)

oilcloth (fabric or cloth treated on one side with a waterproof covering, especially one made from linseed oil; used for flooring, tablecloths, kitchen shelves, and sometimes furniture covering)


zijde

Afrikaans: sy

Negerhollands: sie, śi

From Middle Dutch side, from Old Dutch *sīda, from Proto-West Germanic *sīdā, from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ.


crin

Borrowed from French crin (“horsehair”).


thickset

en-noun

thickset (countable and uncountable, plural thicksets)

[…] his coat was originally what is called a thickset, but out at the elbows;

1785, John Trusler, chapter 17, in Modern Times: or the Adventures of Gabriel Outcast, volume 2, London: for the author, page 27:

I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.

1819, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Bride of Lammermoor:

(countable, historical) A piece of clothing made from this fabric.


Leinen

de-noun

Leinen n (strong, genitive Leinens, plural Leinen)

Leinens (genitive)
Leinen (plural)
Leinen (nominative singular)
Leinen (definite nominative plural)
Leinens (genitive singular)
Leinen (definite genitive plural)
Leinen (dative singular)
Leinen (dative definite plural)
Leinen (accusative singular)
Leinen (accusative definite plural)


marquisette

en-noun

marquisette (countable and uncountable, plural marquisettes)

A sheer cotton fabric used for mosquito nets and curtains


gāze

gāze (nominative singular)
gāzi (accusative singular)
gāzes (genitive singular)
gāzei (dative singular)
gāzi (instrumental singular)
gāzē (locative singular)
gāze (singular vocative)

Likely via Russian газ (gaz, “gauze”), or perhaps German Gaze (“gauze”).


Plüsch

de-noun

Plüsch m (strong, genitive Plüsches or Plüschs, plural Plüsche)

Plüsches (genitive)
Plüschs (genitive)
Plüsche (plural)
Plüsch (nominative singular)
Plüsche (definite nominative plural)
Plüsches (genitive singular)
Plüschs (genitive singular)
Plüsche (definite genitive plural)
Plüsch (dative singular)
Plüsche (dative singular)
Plüschen (dative definite plural)
Plüsch (accusative singular)
Plüsche (accusative definite plural)

→ Czech: plyš

→ Hungarian: plüss

→ Kashubian: plisz

→ Lower Sorbian: pliš

→ Polish: plusz

→ Silesian: plisz

→ Upper Sorbian: plyš


cerecloth

en-noun

cerecloth (countable and uncountable, plural cerecloths)

From cere + cloth, from Latin cera (“wax, cere”).

’Twere damnation
To think so base a thought; it were too gross
To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

(historical) Cloth coated with wax so that it is waterproof, used for covering the dead.


bouclé

bouclé (countable and uncountable, plural bouclés)

From French bouclé, from boucler (“to buckle”).

Argent’s Metropolitan line was a sound investment, with its chemically treated bouclé cushions and Airform core.

2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 18:

He, too, showed up in style ahead of the game, wearing a custom bedazzled Amri combination of a bouclé shirt and matching shimmering trousers.

2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.


linnen

nl-noun

linnen n (plural linnens, diminutive linnentje n)

linnens (plural)
linnentje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: linnen

→ Indonesian: linen

→ Papiamentu: linnen (dated)

From Middle Dutch linijn, originally an adjective. Equivalent to lijn + -en.

(uncountable) linen, a cloth made from flax


linnen

linnen (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
linnen (indefinite neuter positive singular)
linnen (indefinite plural positive)
linnen (definite positive)

Afrikaans: linne


ylle

ylle (indefinite nominative singular)
ylles (genitive indefinite singular)
yllet (definite nominative singular)
yllets (definite genitive singular)
yllen (indefinite nominative plural)
yllens (genitive indefinite plural)
yllena (definite nominative plural)
yllenas (definite genitive plural)


лице

bg-noun

лице́ • (licé) n (relational adjective ли́цев)

лице́ (canonical)
licé (romanization)
ли́цев (adjective relational)
лице́ (indefinite singular)
лица́ (indefinite plural)
лице́то (definite singular)
лица́та (definite plural)

(by metonymy) individual
(grammar) person


gasa

Borrowed from Spanish gasa, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz).


pantaloon

Borrowed from French pantalon, from Italian Pantalone (a character in Commedia dell'arte), from Spanish Pantaleon (surname).


platno

plátno (canonical masculine)
пла́тно (Cyrillic)
plátno (nominative singular)
platna (nominative plural)
platna (genitive singular)
plátnā (genitive plural)
platnu (dative singular)
platnima (dative plural)
platno (accusative singular)
platna (accusative plural)
platno (singular vocative)
platna (plural vocative)
platnu (locative singular)
platnima (locative plural)
platnom (instrumental singular)
platnima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poltьno, from Proto-Indo-European *polto- (“cloth”).


platno

plátno (canonical neuter)
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plátno (nominative singular)
plátni (dual nominative)
plátna (nominative plural)
plátna (genitive singular)
pláten (dual genitive)
pláten (genitive plural)
plátnu (dative singular)
plátnoma (dative dual)
plátnom (dative plural)
plátno (accusative singular)
plátni (accusative dual)
plátna (accusative plural)
plátnu (locative singular)
plátnih (dual locative)
plátnih (locative plural)
plátnom (instrumental singular)
plátnoma (dual instrumental)
plátni (instrumental plural)


georgette

en-noun

georgette (countable and uncountable, plural georgettes)

From French georgette, named after Georgette de la Plante, French dressmaker.

She looked away from the stage at an enormously stout lady promenading in a black and salmon georgette dress.

1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 68:

Martha began sarcastically to explain why it was that even if she had been twelve she could not have worn this pink frilled georgette to the Van Rensbergs' house, since nice little English girls were not for export.

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 73:

Silk chiffon and silk georgette. Two thin, thin materials that cannot be confused with each other.

2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 62:

A thin lightweight silk or cotton fabric with a matte finish.


surah

Alternative spelling of sura (“chapter of Quran”)


bengaline

bengaline (countable and uncountable, plural bengalines)

/ˈbɛŋɡəliːn/

From French bengaline, from its resemblance to a kind of fabric imported from Bengal.

Ruperta tonight was in a narrow black bengaline costume with a Medici collar and cuffs of bastard chinchilla.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415:

A fabric made from silk and worsted; poplin.


پردہ

ur-noun

پَرْدَہ • (parda) m (Hindi spelling परदा)

پَرْدَہ (canonical)
parda (romanization)
परदा (Hindi)
پردَہ (direct singular)
پردے (direct plural)
پردے (oblique singular)
پردوں (oblique plural)
پردے (singular vocative)
پردو (plural vocative)

→ English: purdah

Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).


پرده

Turkish: perde

→ Albanian: perde

→ Armenian: փէրտէ (pʻērtē)

→ Bulgarian: перде́ (perdé)

→ Greek: μπερντές (berntés)

→ Laz: ფერდე (perde)

→ Macedonian: перде (perde)

→ Romanian: perdea

→ Serbo-Croatian: перда / perda

Borrowed from Persian پرده (parda, “curtain, screen, veil”).

oil painting, an artwork done with oil paints

(music) tone, a whole tone, the pitch of the voice

(figuratively, of a woman) chastity, immaculateness, modesty


соукъно

head

соукъно • (sukŭno) n

cu-noun

соукъно • (sukŭno) n

sukŭno (romanization)
соукъно (nominative singular)
соукънѣ (dual nominative)
соукъна (nominative plural)
соукъна (genitive singular)
соукъноу (dual genitive)
соукънъ (genitive plural)
соукъноу (dative singular)
соукънома (dative dual)
соукъномъ (dative plural)
соукъно (accusative singular)
соукънѣ (accusative dual)
соукъна (accusative plural)
соукъномъ (instrumental singular)
соукънома (dual instrumental)
соукънꙑ (instrumental plural)
соукънѣ (locative singular)
соукъноу (dual locative)
соукънѣхъ (locative plural)
соукъно (singular vocative)
соукънѣ (dual vocative)
соукъна (plural vocative)


katoen

nl-noun

katoen n (plural katoenen, diminutive katoentje n)

katoenen (plural)
katoentje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: katoen

Berbice Creole Dutch: katun

→ Lokono: káruñ

→ Caribbean Hindustani: kátun

→ German: Kattun (“calico”)

→ Indonesian: katun

→ Munsee: kátoon

→ Papiamentu: katuna, katoena

→ Sranan Tongo: katun

→ Aukan: katun

→ West Frisian: katoen

From Middle Dutch catoen, from older cotoen, from Old French coton, from Old Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).


sztuka

pl-noun

sztuka f (diminutive sztuczka, abbreviation szt.)

sztuczka (diminutive)
szt. (abbreviation)
sztuka (nominative singular)
sztuki (nominative plural)
sztuki (genitive singular)
sztuk (genitive plural)
sztuce (dative singular)
sztukom (dative plural)
sztukę (accusative singular)
sztuki (accusative plural)
sztuką (instrumental singular)
sztukami (instrumental plural)
sztuce (locative singular)
sztukach (locative plural)
sztuko (singular vocative)
sztuki (plural vocative)

→ Russian: шту́ка (štúka)

Inherited from Old Polish sztuka. Sense 1 was derived from sense 12. Doublet of stiuk.

(archaic) specific quantity of fabric sold as a whole


Coburg

A rural district of Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.

A city in Lane County, Oregon, United States.


Coburg

en-noun

Coburg (countable and uncountable, plural Coburgs)

A thin single-twilled worsted fabric with cotton or silk.


żagiel

pl-noun

żagiel m inan (related adjective żaglowy)

żaglowy (adjective)
żagiel (nominative singular)
żagle (nominative plural)
żagla (genitive singular)
żagli (genitive plural)
żaglowi (dative singular)
żaglom (dative plural)
żagiel (accusative singular)
żagle (accusative plural)
żaglem (instrumental singular)
żaglami (instrumental plural)
żaglu (locative singular)
żaglach (locative plural)
żaglu (singular vocative)
żagle (plural vocative)

(sailing) sail (piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along; it may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars, and ropes)


garlick

A corruption of a placename, probably German Görlitz in Silesia (whence early spellings like garlits), or possibly Dutch Gulik (the Duchy of Jülich, suggested by early spellings like gulix).

quote-book

GARLICK (garlits, garlix, gulick, gulix) A linen cloth first imported from Goerlitz, Silesia. It could be fully or partially bleached: “There are several sorts, the first is a blew whiting, and ellwide garlits, which is of a 􂀿...􂁀"

2007, Florence M. Montgomery, Textiles in America, 1650-1870: A Dictionary Based on Original Documents, Prints and Paintings, Commercial Records, American Merchant's Papers, Shopkeepers' Advertisements, and Pattern Books with Original Swatches of Cloth, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 245:
GARLICK (garlits, garlix, gulick, gulix) A linen cloth first imported from Goerlitz, Silesia. It could be fully or partially bleached: “There are several sorts, the first is a blew whiting, and ellwide garlits, which is of a [...]"

Nicholas Brownlees; Gabriella Del Lungo; John Denton

2010, Nicholas Brownlees, Gabriella Del Lungo, John Denton, The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 166:
Garlick A type of linen holland manufactured in Gulik (Dutch) / Juliers (French) / Jülich (German), a town now in Germany.

... Segathies, Callimancoes, Stuffs, Hats, Silk, Worsted, and Thread Stockings, Hollands, Cambricks, Lawns, Muslin, Dowlasses, Garlicks, Damask Table Linen, Diaper Ditto, several Sorts of Manchester Goods, English and Italian Mantuas, ...

2009, C. Klekar, The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:

Garlicks, Isinghams, Irish and Russia Cloth; fine Bag and rough Hollands, fine Cambricks, and Muslins, plain and strip'd ... Ann Porter sold second-hand childbed linen and clothing for the poor, which would have been bought by the ...

2010, Nicholas Brownlees, Gabriella Del Lungo, John Denton, The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 165:

Scarlett, blue, & Superfine Broad Cloth” (Pringle 1972, 1:31). Coarse cloth, checks, garlick, osnaburg, dowlas, Russia linen, and plains were cheap linen and woolen fabrics for working men and women and the enslaved.

2013, Kathleen A. Staples, Madelyn C. Shaw, Clothing Through American History: The British Colonial Era, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 141:

She chose one piece of garlick in November 1723 and one piece of silk crape from the same shipment in December the following year. Garlick was an imported linen cloth, very popular and used for ...

2014, Christina J. Hodge, Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 134:

(historical) A (type of) linen cloth historically exported from Germany.


látka

látkový (adjective)
látka (nominative singular)
látky (nominative plural)
látky (genitive singular)
látek (genitive plural)
látce (dative singular)
látkám (dative plural)
látku (accusative singular)
látky (accusative plural)
látko (singular vocative)
látky (plural vocative)
látce (locative singular)
látkách (locative plural)
látkou (instrumental singular)
látkami (instrumental plural)


látka

látkový (adjective)
nominative
látka (singular)
látky (plural)
genitive
látky (singular)
látok (plural)
dative
látke (singular)
látkam (plural)
accusative
látku (singular)
locative
látkach (plural)
instrumental
látkou (singular)
látkami (plural)


پارچه

head

پارچه • (parça)

ota-noun

پارچه • (parça)

Turkish: parça

desc

→ Middle Armenian: պարչա (parčʻa, “brocade”)

Armenian: պարչա (parčʻa, “brocade”)

→ Bulgarian: парче́ (parčé)

→ Crimean Tatar: parça

→ Georgian: ფარჩა (parča, “brocade”)

→ Macedonian: парче (parče)

→ Russian: парча́ (parčá, “brocade”)

→ Serbo-Croatian: párče / па́рче

→ Ukrainian: парча́ (parčá, “brocade”)


brokát

brokát (nominative singular)
brokáty (nominative plural)
brokátu (genitive singular)
brokátů (genitive plural)
brokátu (dative singular)
brokátům (dative plural)
brokát (accusative singular)
brokáty (accusative plural)
brokáte (singular vocative)
brokáty (plural vocative)
brokátě (locative singular)
brokátu (locative singular)
brokátech (locative plural)
brokátem (instrumental singular)
brokáty (instrumental plural)


brokát

sk-noun

brokát m inan (related adjective brokátový)

brokátový (adjective)
nominative
brokát (singular)
brokáty (plural)
genitive
brokátu (singular)
brokátov (plural)
dative
brokátom (plural)
accusative
locative
brokáte (singular)
brokátoch (plural)
instrumental
brokátom (singular)
brokátmi (plural)


ऊर्णा

sa-noun

ऊर्णा • (ū́rṇā) stem, f

ū́rṇā (romanization)
ऊर्णा (nominative singular)
ऊर्णे (dual nominative)
ऊर्णाः (nominative plural)
ऊर्णे (singular vocative)
ऊर्णे (dual vocative)
ऊर्णाः (plural vocative)
ऊर्णाम् (accusative singular)
ऊर्णे (accusative dual)
ऊर्णाः (accusative plural)
ऊर्णया (instrumental singular)
ऊर्णा1 (instrumental singular)
ऊर्णाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
ऊर्णाभिः (instrumental plural)
ऊर्णायै (dative singular)
ऊर्णाभ्याम् (dative dual)
ऊर्णाभ्यः (dative plural)
ऊर्णायाः (ablative singular)
ऊर्णायै2 (ablative singular)
ऊर्णाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
ऊर्णाभ्यः (ablative plural)
ऊर्णायाः (genitive singular)
ऊर्णायै2 (genitive singular)
ऊर्णयोः (dual genitive)
ऊर्णानाम् (genitive plural)
ऊर्णायाम् (locative singular)
ऊर्णयोः (dual locative)
ऊर्णासु (locative plural)

Dardic:

Kashmiri: वोन् (wōn)

Khasa Prakrit:

Dogri: unna

Devanagari script: उन्न

Dogra script: 𑠄𑠝𑠹𑠝

Magadhi Prakrit:

Assamese: উণ (un)

Bengali: ঊণ (un)

Paisaci Prakrit:

Punjabi: ਉੱਨ (unna)

Pali: uṇṇa

→ Kannada: ಉಣ್ಣೆ (uṇṇe)

Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀉𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀸 (uṇṇā)

Kachchi: ઊન (ūna)

Hindustani:

Hindi: ऊन (ūn)

Urdu: اون (ūn)

→ Hindi: ऊर्णा (ūrṇā) (learned)

→ Tocharian A: urṇ

→ Tocharian B: *ūrṇ

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwŕ̥HnaH
Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ūrṇā)
Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwŕ̥HnaH (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (“wool”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬁 (var^ənā), Ancient Greek λῆνος (lênos), Latin lāna, Lithuanian vìlna, English wool.


marocain

en-noun

marocain (countable and uncountable, plural marocains)

/ˌmæɹəˈkeɪn/

/ˌmɑɹəˈkeɪn/

Borrowed from French marocain (“Moroccan”), from Maroc (“Morocco”) (from Medieval Latin Marrochium (“the city of Marrakech, the former capital of Morocco”), ultimately from Berber Murt n Akush (“Land of God”)) + -ain (suffix forming demonyms).

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For summer tailored costumes it will be unequalled. "Toile Marocain," is a quite new fabric neither silk nor wool, but a special mixture of silk and goat's wool, that resembles the coarse stuff the native Arabs use in making their great burnouse—a hooded cape—and it comes in plain colors, particularly elephant gray, adapted to tailored costumes; and it is produced in chinè weaves with a Toile de Jouy effect, for little jackets and waistcoats.

[1917 February, Margaret Alice Friend, “Paris Fashion Service”, in W. B. Walker, editor, Silk: An Illustrated Magazine Published Monthly in the Interests of the Producer and the Buyer, volume X, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Silk Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 59:

Rodier's favored wool fabric this spring is Crêpella, a wool crêpe marocain. It is evident that crêpe gained such favor during the past season that Rodier now applies the same process to woolens.

1922, Good Housekeeping, volume 74, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazines, →OCLC, page 35:

Bianchini Ferier are also showing a great variety of crêpes, Marocains of the heaviest and best qualities that sell for 85 francs a yard, and brocaded marocains that are more crêpe Romain, […]

1922 September, Daphne Carr, “Style Movements in Paris Silks”, in C. B. Clifford, editor, The American Silk Journal, volume XLI, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Clifford & Lawton, →OCLC, page 48, column 2:

There is now a very wide range in woven fabrics of cotton and artificial silk, which may contain percentages of artificial silk ranging from 5–60%. Thus we have cotton coatings, Bedford cords, cambric shirtings, lingerie fabrics, cotton marocains, poplins, […]

1928, E[dward] Wheeler, “The Uses of Artificial Silk”, in E. Howard Tripp, editor, The Manufacture of Artificial Silk: With Special Reference to the Viscose Process (Monographs on Applied Chemistry; 1), New York, N.Y.: D[avid] Van Nostrand Company, →OCLC, page 114:

France is by far the largest supplier of silk piece goods to Argentina. […] The types of cloth wanted are principally flat crepe, marocain, georgettes, lingerie silk, crepe de Chine, and satin.

1932, Thomas C. Ballagh, “Market for Specific Textiles”, in Textile Market of Argentina (United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Trade Promotion Series; no. 132), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 89:

Silk crepe yarns have been very widely used in the past for well-known fabrics such as crepe-de-chine, marocain and georgette.

2015, J. Hayavadana, “Crepe Surface and Crepe Weaves (Oatmeal)”, in Woven Fabric Structure Design and Product Planning (Woodhead Publishing India in Textiles), New Delhi: Woodhead Publishing India, →ISBN, page 124:

A heavy crepe fabric of silk, wool, or both, having a cross-ribbed texture, used for apparel.