moirette

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noun

A textile fabric designed to imitate moire, having a moiré pattern.

First used 19th c.Scrabble 10
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Meanings

nounmoirette (countable and uncountable, plural moirettes)

plural moirettes

  1. countableuncountableA textile fabric designed to imitate moire, having a moiré pattern.First known use 19th c.

    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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

From moire + -ette.

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Chicago

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