Etymology

duvetyne

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Today it means: A heavy black cloth used in the motion picture and film industry to block out unwanted light. Full definition →

French duvetine ← Middle French *dumet ← Old French dun
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromdūnn
  2. Old French · derived fromdun
  3. Middle French · derived from*dumet
  4. French · borrowed fromduvetine
  5. English todayduvetyne

Borrowed from French duvetine, from duvet, from Middle French *dumet, diminutive of Old French dun, dum, ultimately from Old Norse dūnn.

Words from the same roots

Old Norsedūnn all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.