ratiné

noun

A rough bulky plain-woven fabric.

OriginOld French rastin ← Late Latin raster ← Latin rādō →
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Meanings

nounratiné (countable and uncountable, plural ratinés)

plural ratinés

  1. countableuncountableA rough bulky plain-woven fabric.

    On most of the heavy ratinés the yarn sizes are relatively 4-1 or coarser, while in many of these rice cloths the relative yarn sizes are 7–1 or finer.

    1914, A Cotton Fabrics Glossary, page 144

Origin

  1. Latinrādō“to scrape”
  2. Late Latinraster“to scrape”
  3. Old Frenchrastin
  4. Englishratiné

From French, past participle of ratiner (“to adorn”), from ratine, from Old French rastin and Late Latin raster (“to scrape”), from Latin rādō (“to scrape”).

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