Word.ws English Dictionary

cordonnets

cordonnets is the plural of cordonnet.

Meaning of cordonnet

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

Questions about cordonnets

What is cordonnets the plural of?
Cordonnets is the plural of cordonnet.

Words near cordonnets in the dictionary

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

Source and license

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

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cordonnets.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cordonnets. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.