Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a colorful swirled pattern of abstract curved shapes. Used especially of fabric.
- noun A paisley pattern or fabric.
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- noun
motif ofswirling droplet - noun a soft
woolen fabric having this motif - adjective made from this fabric, or marked with this design
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As the offspring of parents who were highly crunchyin the 1960s and 1970s, Aaron could be described as a paisley diaper baby.
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As for which scarf to choose: ideally, I prefer vintage silk, and am currently much taken with an unlabelled paisley print from the 1950s; softened with age, but still unfaded.
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Was hoping that the two "paisley" cakes were actually a yin/yang pair.
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They have the YLI organic cotton thread, as well as two fabric medleys: the lightweight Oasis Canvas Medley in solid colors and the Woodblock Vegetable Dye Medley, which is kind of paisley and stripey and floral.
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I want to cover the band with either little studs, in a kind of paisley pattern with a transfer?
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And then there's the ermine, gold kind of paisley coat at the end, the rich fur and the gloves and the gun scene.
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I want to cover the band with either little studs, in a kind of paisley pattern with a transfer?
Ten Things I'm Going to Make Just As Soon As I Get Around To It - A Dress A Day
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Here he is glamming it up on the GLAAD "paisley" carpet.
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The new autumn collections are full of dresses with sleeves of every shape and size - three-quarter length, cuffed, long and tight, full and belled, raglan and puffed, many in a print pattern such as paisley print, on a long-sleeved dress.
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Though it did mean that I did a couple of placemats - I made up 8 or so of these from scrap pairs which I've been using as enders and leaders - I thought I'd practice some of the 72 ways not to stipple or meander from the new Dijanne Cevaal book I got - the placemat on left is actually from the other day and has a leaf type meander, the one on the right has a "paisley" design - wavy lines, with straight lines and dots down the middle.
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