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Dress material
Answer for the clue "Dress material ", 7 letters:
organdy
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Word definitions for organdy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fine, transparent fabric made from cotton, and usually stiffened.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sheer stiff muslin [syn: organdie ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fine transparent muslin," 1829, from French organdi , defined as "sorte de Mousseline ou toile de coton" (1725), of unknown origin. Barnhart suggests it is an alteration of Organzi , from medieval form of Urgench , city in Uzbekistan that was a cotton ...
Usage examples of organdy.
Hard on their heels came Mesdames Celeste and Elizabeth, accompanied by a bevy of seamstresses bearing armsful of muslins, crapes, taffetas, organdies, hand-painted Chinese silks, and Indian silks.
Appareled in cymars and mantles, in sendaline and jaconet and organdy like the cortege of a celebration, they followed Linden as if to do her honor.
She wore a gown of light blue organdy with frothy ruffles at the throat and wrists, and her hair was caught in a mass of soft ringlets with narrow blue ribbons falling over the cascading curls.
As usual, I was struck by the relationship between her surroundings, the surroundings Winifred had chosen for her—the dainty prints, the ribbon rosebuds, the organdies, the flounces—and Laura herself.
It was not a pretty outfit, and it was a far cry from the organdies and velvets of her childhood, forgotten luxuries by now.
And yet you squander those riches on croquet and organdies and trumpery works of art.