bouclé
/buːˈkleɪ/
bouclé noun: a fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
Noun
bouclé (countable and uncountable, plural bouclés)
- A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
- 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
- Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.
Forms of bouclé
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Origin of bouclé
From French bouclé, from boucler (“to buckle”).
Words that rhyme with bouclé
Questions about bouclé
- What does bouclé mean?
- Bouclé means a fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
- What part of speech is bouclé?
- Bouclé is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bouclé?
- Bouclé is pronounced /buːˈkleɪ/.
- What is the plural of bouclé?
- The plural of bouclé is bouclés.
Words near bouclé in the dictionary
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