Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A textile fabric made to imitate moire.

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Examples

  • They were going through the movements used in resuscitating the drowned, and he, too, knelt at a nod by the side of the fat old woman in an emerald green moirette petticoat and a somewhat _déclassé_ bedjacket, who was breathing heavily through the unaccustomed exercise.

    Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

  • Cookie in an emerald green moirette petticoat and a somewhat _déclassé_ bedjacket, a tight knot of hair playing bob-cherry with her kindly right blue eye, and a rolling-pin clutched truculently in her red right hand.

    Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

  • [Page 153] helped her to take off her raincoat and reflected that Kitty would not be pleased when she saw that the removal of the garment disclosed a purple blouse of stuff called moirette that servants use for petticoats, she exclaimed softly Kitty's praises.

    The Return of the Soldier 1918

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