Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A watered or moiré fabric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clouded or watered appearance on metals or textile fabrics.
- noun A Kind of watered silk; also, watered mohair. See
watered .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.
- noun A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces; moi`ré.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern
- noun silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's more of an artifact problem but I thought I put the word moire in here because it does give a similar effect to the eye.
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The object of developing upon woven textiles the effect known as moire is the production of a peculiar luster resulting from the divergent reflection of the light rays on the material, a divergence brought about by compressing and flattening the warp and filling threads in places, and so producing a surface the different parts of which reflect the light differently.
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My grandfather invented a specific process for creating a certain kind of moire brocade that is still ours alone.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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Layers upon layers of paperlike sheets are superimposed upon each other, their edges often "cropping out" on sloping surfaces; and since these edges, according to the curvatures of the surfaces, run in wavy lines, the total aspect is very often that of "moire" silk.
Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove
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There was also a little more "moire" and jaggies on edges on the Topfield, but in isolation it did look pretty good.
CNET Australia 2009
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No one complained, however, when reviews of final crisis 6 contained moneyshots of Batman with the gun or Batman in the Omega sanction on the day of release - those pages weren't something DC had given us, and I recognized the moire of a paper scan on several sites.
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Jenny Sanford is looking moire and more like a chump each day.
Jenny Sanford on her husband: 'The ball is in his court' 2009
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Compression is a problem - although so is moire and jello etc etc - they are certainly far from perfect DSLRs but you can actually make a pretty good living at the moment using them for video and stills - and its challenging but fun work - so I'm enjoying shooting on them.
Nocturne on Vimeo 2010
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He is honest and has moire integrity then what we have seen from other candidates.
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Out of the steamer-trunk she pulled a heavy black silk moire skirt, and a high-necked, long-sleeved black silk shirtwaist trimmed in black silk embroidery and jet beads.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
yarb commented on the word moire
As often as she turned her head the movement sent a slow undulation over her neck and shoulders, the pale amber-tinted shadows under her chin, coming and going over the creamy whiteness of the skin like the changing moire of silk.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 5
August 15, 2008