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dimity

dimity noun: a light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares. Also the alternative form of dimmity.

Noun

dimity (countable and uncountable, plural dimities)

  1. (dated in general use) A light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares.
    • Strain the ſoup through a piece of dimity into a clean ſaucepan, and let it ſtew till it is of the thickneſs of cream.1717, T. Williams, The Accomplished Housekeeper, and Universal Cook, page 134
    • The first of these tweels, in respect to the number of leaves, is the dimity cord, which is merely the three leafed tweel turned, a plan of which is subjoined, both for cording and treading.1831, John Murphy, A Treatise on the Art of Weaving, Glasgow, page 42

Proper noun capitalized: Dimity

Dimity

  1. A female given name of modern usage.
    • 'Raffle books,' she announced.
      'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty.1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98
  2. A surname.
    • The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line.1843, N. P. Willis, “Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour”, in George R. Graham, Rufus W. Griswold, editors, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volumes 22-23...

Also used as

dimity is also the alternative form of dimmity.

dimity meaning in Tagalog

dimity in Tagalog

light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares
kotonya, dimiti

Examples of dimity in a sentence

  • The drapery should always be perfectly white, of dimity, twilled muslin, or other neat strong material.1840, "A Lady", The Workwoman's Guide, page 42:
  • Zuleika’s pincushion, a-bristle with new pins, lay on the dimity-flounced toilet-table, and round it stood a multitude of multiform glass vessels, domed, all of them, with dull gold, on which Z.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published...

Forms of dimity

pluraldimities
alternative formdimmity

Origin of dimity

From earlier dimite, from Middle English demit, demyt, from Medieval Latin dimitum, from Byzantine Greek δίμιτον (dímiton), from Ancient Greek δίμιτος (dímitos, “of double thread”).

The given name is apparently from the name of the light cotton fabric, dimity. However, since it is found primarily as an Irish name, it may have originated as a feminine equivalent of Dermot.

Questions about dimity

What does dimity mean?
Dimity means a light strong fabric with woven stripes or squares.
What is dimity in Tagalog?
Dimity in Tagalog is kotonya, dimiti. See Dimity meaning in Tagalog.
How do you use dimity in a sentence?
The drapery should always be perfectly white, of dimity, twilled muslin, or other neat strong material.
What part of speech is dimity?
Dimity can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of dimity?
The plural of dimity is dimities.

Words near dimity in the dictionary

  1. Dimitrov
  2. Dimitrova
  3. Dimitrovas
  4. Dimitrovgrad
  5. Dimitrovs
  6. dimity
  7. DIML
  8. Dimli
  9. dimlit
  10. dimly
  11. DIMM

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