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How to use taffeta in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Taffeta means a crisp, smooth woven fabric made from silk or synthetic fibers. Example: “Having unearthed their taffeta gowns from deep storage, they show off pinched waists, bare arms, throats and shoulders.”

Examples of taffeta by meaning

nounA crisp, smooth woven fabric made from silk or synthetic fibers.

  • Having unearthed their taffeta gowns from deep storage, they show off pinched waists, bare arms, throats and shoulders.2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

More sentences with taffeta

  • In black taffeta she gazes rigidly at the camera with a rookish head-tilt.2022, William Atkins, Exiles: Three Island Journeys. From the entry rookish
  • The panes are of black velvet, decorated like the doublet and showing off the violet taffeta.1988, Dora Liscia Bemporad, Il Costume nell'età del Rinascimento, page 298. From the entry pluderhose
  • Wearing alike costumes of holiday red silk taffeta the attendants were Mrs.1985, John Galen Saylor, Helen Smith Saylor, A Smith Lineage: A Brief History and Genealogical Record of One Line of Descendants of Robert…. From the entry bridesmatron
  • This was not a printer's devilry, for taffetas, sugar, mats are similarly misstated.1909, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record. From the entry printer's devilry
  • Billionaires wear hoodies and sneakers, not taffeta and bugle beads.2026 January 20, Vanessa Friedman, “The Way ‘Rich’ Once Looked”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry bugle
  • They argued over whether it was silk taffeta or habotai.2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 61. From the entry habotai
  • Idle chose a bluette taffeta dress with a matching jacket and a corsage of pink roses and bouvardia.1955 September 17, “Nuptial Mass: Margaret Jo Idle Recites Vows With Paul O’Drain”, in A. M. Richards, Jr., editor, The Independent, home…. From the entry bluette
  • A Worth taffeta model in the approved bunched, draped, and long-in-places style has flutters of lace set in the skirt.1928, Parinite, edited by David Remnick, Harold Wallace Ross, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Rea Irvin, Roger Angell, Tina Brown…. From the entry flutter
  • French taffeta evening separates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date.2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian. From the entry separate
  • Known also as taffeta glass, it got its more popular name from the fact it was once given away as prizes in carnivals.1983, Ford Times, volume 76, number 4, page 23. From the entry carnival glass
  • Mae, all done up in a demure blue taffeta robe de style, is just about as cute as can be and more Betty Boop-ish than ever.1935 July 21, “Loew’s Fox”, in The Washington Post, number 21,584, Washington, D.C., section “Betty Boop in Person”. From the entry Betty Boop-ish

Meaning of taffeta

  1. noun A crisp, smooth woven fabric made from silk or synthetic fibers.

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Questions about taffeta in a sentence

How do you use taffeta in a sentence?
Taffeta is used as a noun. For example: “Having unearthed their taffeta gowns from deep storage, they show off pinched waists, bare arms, throats and shoulders.”
What is a short sentence with taffeta?
“Billionaires wear hoodies and sneakers, not taffeta and bugle beads.”
What does taffeta mean?
Taffeta means a crisp, smooth woven fabric made from silk or synthetic fibers.

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