hernani

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noun

A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.

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Meanings

hernani1

nounhernani (countable and uncountable, plural hernanis)

plural hernanis

  1. countableuncountableA thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.

    Hernani, silk and cotton […] Hernani, entirely of silk

    1837, Joseph Blunt, The Shipmaster's Assistant and Commercial Digest, page 661
    2 more examples

    A novelty this season is the wide mesh hernani in all colors; […]

    1870, Godey's Lady's Book, volumes 80-81, page 493

    I wanted, you understand, to get an entire new waist and a trimmed skirt out of the two old hernani skirts, and discard the old waist altogether; […]

    1881, Arthur's Home Magazine, volume 49, page 482

Hernani2

proper noun
  1. A locality in the Armidale council area and the Clarence Valley council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A town and municipality of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.

Origin

From the town of Hernani in Spain.

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Translations

Spanish Hernani
  • HernaniSpanish town

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

rhenian
Cite this entry
APA

hernani. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hernani

MLA

“hernani.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hernani. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hernani,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hernani.

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