chenille
/ʃəˈniːl/
chenille noun: an extremely soft and bunchy fabric often used to make sweaters.
Noun
chenille (countable and uncountable, plural chenilles)
- An extremely soft and bunchy fabric often used to make sweaters.
- 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
Forms of chenille
| plural | chenilles |
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Origin of chenille
Borrowed from French chenille. Doublet of canicule.
Words formed from chenille
Phrases with chenille
Words that rhyme with chenille
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- keel
- anneal
- creel
- peal
- peel
- sweal
- congeal
- Izmail
- kneel
- meal
- Neale
- streal
- weal
- awheel
- Castile
- cochineal
- feal
- heal
- Lille
- ordeal
- repeal
- sele
- squeal
- teal
- zeal
- ceil
- debile
- dishabille
- hele
- leal
- lifesteal
- Neil
- Niel
- O'Neill
- reveal
- schlemiel
- seel
- she'll
- shiel
- skeel
- spiel
- square meal
- unseal
- veal
- we'll
- weel
- ye'll
- -meal
Questions about chenille
- What does chenille mean?
- Chenille means an extremely soft and bunchy fabric often used to make sweaters.
- What part of speech is chenille?
- Chenille is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chenille?
- Chenille is pronounced /ʃəˈniːl/.
- What is the plural of chenille?
- The plural of chenille is chenilles.
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