What is "rayon"

Usage examples of "rayon".

La chambre verte, dans laquelle ma mere mettait mon petit lit pres du sien, je la considerais, dans sa douceur auguste et dans sa saintete familiere, comme le point sur lequel le ciel versait ses rayons avec ses graces, ainsi que cela se voit dans les images de saintete.

Un joyeux rayon du soleil levant entrait par sa lucarne et lui venait frapper le visage.

Rayon and Orion scalloped out all around like a piecrust to be trimmed.

She wore a shiny rayon pantsuit and made her face up with orangy lipstick and iridescent eye shadow.

Finishing her bath, she reapplied her makeup, brushed out her hair until it shone, applied a strategic dab or two of perfume, and dressed again, in a fresh pair ofjeans and a white rayon camp shirt, which she tucked in at the waist.

Gave, grossi par la premiere fonte des neiges, rouler entre ses rives verdoyantes ses eaux froides qui fumaient par places sous les rayons obliques du soleil levant et pour ecouter leur fracas torrentueux.

Ships docked to load up our national products, goods transported from Stalingrad, Stalinsk, Stalino, Stalinbad, Stalinir, Stalinkan, and Stalinovo, goods to be sent forth to a waiting world: caviar and sables, vodka and papirosi, heroin and hashish, plutonium and red mercury, balalaikas, matryoshkas, lapel pins, rayon banners, platinum busts of our leaders, and coypu.

He tucked his khaki undershirt into his white rayon bellbottoms and called for more drink.

Purplestar sweaters, antique pendants, beaded chokers, organic nuts, horoscopes, sciencefiction movies, fourdollar transparent soap, big English cars, Mexican villas, ecology, pink rolling paper, brownies, seaweed with my pork chops, soy noodles, dacron, rayon, orlon acrylic, Fortrel polyester, Lycra spandex, leather, vinyl, suede, velvet, velours, canvas.

When Tansy heads for the truck bed (which already holds two men and one hefty female in a white rayon waitress's uniform), Doodles steers her toward the cab.

It wasn't like modern rayon velvet or heavy cotton velvet, but this was all silk and glistened as only silk could.

They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, ICBM, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet, interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, tupperware, sneakers, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, fuel cell, fuel injection, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS&None of these things would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900.

The operation revealed one black buttock encased in rose-colored rayon pants and the bare back of one thick black thigh showing above the rolled top of a beige rayon stocking.

Rayon, the first synthetic fiber, is simply stabilized guncotton, or nitrated cloth, the basic explosive of the 19th Century.