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Faille

Faille \Faille\, n. [F.] A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

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faille

n. A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.

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faille

n. a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton

Usage examples of "faille".

Fernandus and de la Faille cleaned him out, and Ryder wants his dough back.

De Gier ran to the end of the terrace where he had seen de la Faille, but the baron was gone.

De la Faille is too valuable to Willem, as you pointed out just now in your lopsided manner.

She spied Cleg Trotter, son of crofter Faille Trotter, and headed toward him, clearing her throat.

When it was time for dinner, Houston was dressed in pale green silk faille with a green net overlay embroidered with cut-steel bugle beads, a large pink cameo at her waist.

But Monsieur Vaury pushed the folds of green faille aside with his forearm and slid onto the bench beside me.

In fact she looked quite pretty hi a gown of tan faille silk with a white taffeta drapery.

Draped carefully over her arms was a ball gown of coral faille, its ivory Sicilienne scarf and train folded up over the full skirt.

Grisilde is deed, and eek hir pacience, And bothe atones buryed in Ytaille, For which I crie in open audience No wedded man so hardy be tassaille His wyves pacience, in hope to fynde Grisildis, for in certein he shal faille.

The only other occupant of the drawing room, a handsome if zaftig woman, brutally corsetted into yards of lilac faille, regarded them for a moment and then turned away with a sniff at the sight of Caris' plain livery and Antryg's shabby coat, crystal beads, and bruised face.

Ye han forsothe ydoon a greet bataille, Youre cours is doon, youre feith han ye conserved, Gooth to the corone of lyf that may nat faille.

And this bihote I yow withouten faille, Upon my trouthe, and as I am a knyght, That wheither of yow bothe that hath myght, This is to seyn, that wheither he, or thow May with his hundred, as I spak of now, Sleen his contrarie, or out of lystes dryve, Thanne shal I yeve Emelya to wyve, To whom that Fortune yeveth so fair a grace.

In the dresser drawer there still remained a half-length slip of black faille, hemmed with a pleated flounce and fine Valenciennes lace, which was made to be worn under a pleated sun skirt of black wool which was too sheer not to be transparent.