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dorsar

dorsar noun: a piece of tapestry intended to hang over the back of a chair.

Noun

dorsar (plural dorsars)

  1. A piece of tapestry intended to hang over the back of a chair.
    • He laughed gaily and went into the hall with her, and now was it well dight with bankers and dorsars of goodly figured cloth, […]1896, William Morris, The Well at the World's End, volume 1, Ballantine Books (1970 pb edition), page 94

Forms of dorsar

pluraldorsars

Questions about dorsar

What does dorsar mean?
Dorsar means a piece of tapestry intended to hang over the back of a chair.
What part of speech is dorsar?
Dorsar is a noun.
What is the plural of dorsar?
The plural of dorsar is dorsars.

Words near dorsar in the dictionary

  1. dorsally
  2. dorsalmost
  3. dorsals
  4. dorsalward
  5. dorsalwards
  6. dorsar
  7. dorsars
  8. dorsate
  9. dorse
  10. dorsed
  11. dorsel

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