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cordonnet

cordonnet noun: doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc.

Noun

cordonnet (countable and uncountable, plural cordonnets)

  1. Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc.
    • This silk is of two kinds , each of which has its first and its second qualities . The name of sewing silk is exclusively appropriated , in France , to the finest of these two species ; the other is called cordonnet or twist.1830, John D'Homergue, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, Essays on American Silk

cordonnet meaning in Tamil

cordonnet in Tamil

கயிற்று வடம்

Forms of cordonnet

pluralcordonnets

Origin of cordonnet

Borrowed from French cordonnet, diminutive of cordon. See cardon.

Questions about cordonnet

What does cordonnet mean?
Cordonnet means doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc.
What is cordonnet in Tamil?
Cordonnet in Tamil is கயிற்று வடம். See Cordonnet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cordonnet?
Cordonnet is a noun.
What is the plural of cordonnet?
The plural of cordonnet is cordonnets.

Words near cordonnet in the dictionary

  1. cordonbleus
  2. cordoned
  3. cordoned off
  4. cordoning
  5. cordoning off
  6. cordonnet
  7. cordonnets
  8. cordons
  9. cordons bleus
  10. cordons off
  11. cordons sanitaires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cordonnet (page history and authors); cordonnet (Tamil 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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