Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A crisp, smooth, plain-woven fabric with a slight sheen, made of various fibers, such as silk, rayon, or nylon, and used especially for women's garments.
- adjective Made of or resembling this fabric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silk or linen fabric: a name applied at different times to very different materials.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called
watering . The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
crisp ,smooth woven fabric made fromsilk orsynthetic fibers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a crisp smooth lustrous fabric
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She knew that the other girls would be well dressed, but she could not afford anything new, so she used some turquoise taffeta from a donated dress and combined it with a black velvet top and remembered being very pleased with the result. 50
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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In combining these weaves it is advantageous to have them contrast distinctly, for instance, a short weave such as taffeta or Gros de Tours, with a longer and looser one such as satin, sergé or cannele, also changes from warp to filling effects.
Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics Arnold Wolfensberger
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Weir, was derived from a kind of taffeta or ribbed silk which used to be called tabby silk.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow
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There are few people who do not like the sheen of a soft silk, the sparkle of light on a "taffeta," and the richness of the silk that "can stand alone."
Makers of Many Things Eva March Tappan 1892
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Fragile materials -- such as taffeta -- should be kept strictly for the evening, do you not agree?
Sanditon 1817
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Dresses come in varying lengths, from tea length to floor length, and can incorporate many materials such as taffeta or satin.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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a kind of taffeta-lining to the Crown, his servility has assumed an air of the most determined independence, and he has
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804
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When graduation day arrived at last in June, I brushed my hands down the pink taffeta dress that Grandma had bought for ten dollars at our local thrift shop.
Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011
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On the pretext of having sat on some ice cream, she excused herself and returned wearing a robe of looped taffeta.
Cherie Burns: What Makes a Fashion Icon? Cherie Burns 2011
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On the pretext of having sat on some ice cream, she excused herself and returned wearing a robe of looped taffeta.
Cherie Burns: What Makes a Fashion Icon? Cherie Burns 2011
skipvia commented on the word taffeta
"Taffeta, darling."
"Taffeta, sweetheart."
October 7, 2007
thesaraheffect commented on the word taffeta
Ah! I came here just to say that--I'm a year late!
September 26, 2009