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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paisley
noun
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▪ He imagined the colors fluctuating chaotically in a random, psychedelic paisley.
▪ He was short, in his fifties, wearing a white shirt with a brown paisley pattern.
▪ His achievements include a finish for silk that feels like the skin of a peach, and the revival of paisley.
▪ I slid out of bed and covered myself with a huge paisley shawl.
▪ Lise Charmel paisley in linen and cotton with pleated satin inserts from the Sahara range.
▪ Navy woollen bolero cardigan with large paisley wool embroidery, £42.99.
▪ The Doctor hooked the handle of his umbrella over his top pocket and pulled his paisley scarf from around his neck.
▪ The thin paisley eiderdown feels damp to the touch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
paisley

1834 as a type of clothing or material, from Paisley, town in southwest Scotland, where the cloth was originally made. As an adjective by 1900. The town name is literally "church," from Middle Irish baslec, itself from Latin basilica (see basilica).

Wiktionary
paisley

a. made from this fabric, or marked with this design n. 1 motif of swirling droplet 2 a soft woolen fabric having this motif

WordNet
paisley

n. a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes

Gazetteer
Paisley, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 734
Housing Units (2000): 396
Land area (2000): 3.281879 sq. miles (8.500028 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.147803 sq. miles (0.382808 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.429682 sq. miles (8.882836 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53850
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.987370 N, 81.536972 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 32767
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Paisley, FL
Paisley
Paisley, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 247
Housing Units (2000): 176
Land area (2000): 0.443999 sq. miles (1.149952 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.443999 sq. miles (1.149952 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56250
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 42.693249 N, 120.545281 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97636
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Paisley, OR
Paisley
Wikipedia
Paisley (design)

Paisley or Paisley pattern is a term in English for a design using the buta or boteh, a droplet-shaped vegetable motif of Persian (i.e. Iranian) origin. Such designs became very popular in the West in the 18th and 19th centuries, following imports of post-Mughal versions of the design from India, especially in the form of Kashmir shawls, and were then imitated locally. The pattern is sometimes called Persian pickles by American traditionalists, especially quilt-makers, or "Welsh pears" in Welsh textiles as far back as 1888.

Paisley

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Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)

Paisley was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1983, when it was divided into Paisley North and Paisley South. These two constituencies were in turn amalgamated into Paisley and Renfrewshire South and Paisley and Renfrewshire North in 2005.

Paisley (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Paisley is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The constituency includes Scotland's largest town, Paisley (excluding Gallowhill), the village of Ralston and the Gleniffer Braes.

Usage examples of "paisley".

He looked like an escaped mental patient, a paisley bandana over one eye, face covered in fresh scratches.

His imbalanced frame was wrapped in a paisley smoking jacket with a quilted green collar.

BZ reaction always looks like a paisley pattern filled with spirals, with no circular waves in sight.

The endpapers were of a feather design, a kind of paisley pattern in shades of brown and ochre, rust and beige, with just the merest hint of blue.

Accused of crimes against humanity, Aeneas defends himself with the story of his life -- a lively if unlikely romp involving a paisley dirigible, a free-love colony in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a neo-Inca community at Machu Picchu, and exile to an outpost on Antarctica-to say nothing of the nuclear destruction of a large portion of eastern North America.

The Sandy-creature took a step forward, and the paisleys advanced with him.

Clear maternal eyes, neck concealed beneath layers of chin, gray hair done up in a bun, with wisps that had escaped the net chignon, pigeon-breasted, plump forearms with deeply dimpled elbows, wearing a silk dress of purple paisley.

They spend the next fifteen years of their lives making paisley license plates in C'atel Prison.

He wore a navy three-piece suit, bankerly with its chalk stripes and flashy with its paisley tie.

A woman walked by wearing a pale peach tent shirt in a faux paisley pattern, brown gauze pants, and ribbon barrettes pulling her hair from her face.

A blue-haired woman, sporting more chins than I had owned in my heyday, went squealing past us up the stairs, the skirt of her paisley silk dress clutched in both hands.

Now, places like the Rainbow hop around the clock, even on a Tuesday afternoon -- whenever fresh dittos can arrive, baked for harsh pleasure in their owners' kilns, decorated in everything from paisley spirals to moiré patters that turn skin into blurry art.

Beneath yellow silk tents, on paisley pillows, Mughal princes acrobatically copulated with multiple partners, keeping their turbans in place.

The anarchist lieutenant -- the dainty man with the paisley kerchiefs -- posed one bent leg atop the wall, with his elbow on his knee and his chin in his hand.

The anarchist lieutenant—the dainty man with the paisley kerchiefs—posed one bent leg atop the wall, with his elbow on his knee and his chin in his hand.