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chiffon

/ʃɪˈfɑn/

chiffon noun: 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: a lightweight, balanced plain-woven sheer fabric, or gauze, like gossamer, woven of alternate S-...
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Noun

chiffon (countable and uncountable, plural chiffons)

  1. 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.
    • Her dresses are made from these marvelous chiffons.
  2. Any purely ornamental accessory on a woman's dress, such as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.

chiffon meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Malay

chiffon in Tamil

மென்பட்டு, சிஃப்பான்

chiffon in Bengali

শিফন কাপড়

chiffon in Kannada

ತೆಳುಬಟ್ಟೆ, ನವಿರಾದ ತೆಳು ರೇಷ್ಮೆಯಂಥ ವಸ್ತು, ಷಿಫಾನ್

chiffon in Malay

sheer silk or rayon fabric
sifon
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chiffon in Indonesian
sifon

Examples of chiffon in a sentence

  • She is working some sort of amazing burgundy chiffon situation with gold piping.
  • The technique for making angel food cupcakes and chiffon cupcakes illustrates another type of mixing.
  • Daville, wearing Burgundy silk veiled in chiffon of the same shade, and bronze garnitures, and Mrs.

All 17 example sentences with chiffon

Forms of chiffon

pluralchiffons

Plural of chiffon: chiffons

Origin of chiffon

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.

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Questions about chiffon

What does chiffon mean?
Chiffon means 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.
What is chiffon in Tamil?
Chiffon in Tamil is மென்பட்டு, சிஃப்பான். See Chiffon meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chiffon?
Chiffon is a noun.
How do you pronounce chiffon?
Chiffon is pronounced /ʃɪˈfɑn/.
What is the plural of chiffon?
The plural of chiffon is chiffons.

Words near chiffon in the dictionary

  1. chiffarobes
  2. chiffchaff
  3. chiffchaffs
  4. chifferobe
  5. chifferobes
  6. chiffon
  7. chiffon cake
  8. chiffon cakes
  9. chiffon pie
  10. chiffon pies
  11. chiffonade

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chiffon (page history and authors); chiffon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chiffon (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chiffon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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