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foulard

/fuːˈlɑːd/US/fuːˈlɑɹd/

foulard noun: a lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.

foulard: a lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern
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Noun

foulard (countable and uncountable, plural foulards)

  1. A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
    • The Empress and the little Grand Duchess wore simple suits of foulard (or foulard silk, I don't know which is proper,) with a small blue spot in it […]1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
    • A lot of foulard tie bulged out and was rain-spotted above his crossed lapels.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 176
  2. A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.

Forms of foulard

pluralfoulards

Origin of foulard

Borrowed from French foulard.

Words that rhyme with foulard

31 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about foulard

What does foulard mean?
Foulard means a lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
What part of speech is foulard?
Foulard is a noun.
How do you pronounce foulard?
Foulard is pronounced /fuːˈlɑːd/ (UK).
What is the plural of foulard?
The plural of foulard is foulards.

Words near foulard in the dictionary

  1. foulage
  2. Foulah
  3. Foulahs
  4. foulant
  5. foulants
  6. foulard
  7. foulards
  8. foulbrood
  9. foulbroods
  10. Foulby
  11. foulder

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