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moirette

moirette noun: a textile fabric designed to imitate moire, having a moiré pattern.

Noun

moirette (countable and uncountable, plural moirettes)

  1. A textile fabric designed to imitate moire, having a moiré pattern.
    • Harriett was standing in her little faded red moirette petticoat and a blue flannelette dressing-jacket brushing her wiry hair.1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 63
    • She […] looked round to see if anyone had witnessed her display of chequered moirette petticoat and the inches of black stocking above her boots.1923, Elizabeth Bowen, Encounters

Forms of moirette

pluralmoirettes

Origin of moirette

From moire + -ette.

Questions about moirette

What does moirette mean?
Moirette means a textile fabric designed to imitate moire, having a moiré pattern.
What part of speech is moirette?
Moirette is a noun.
What is the plural of moirette?
The plural of moirette is moirettes.

Words near moirette in the dictionary

  1. Moirangcha
  2. Moirangmayum
  3. Moirangthem
  4. moire
  5. moires
  6. moirette
  7. moirettes
  8. moirocaust
  9. moirocausts
  10. moirologist
  11. moirologists

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