单词 | marquisette |
释义 | marquisetten. A type of machine-made net fabric produced on a leno loom or a Raschel lace machine.Originally of silk and used esp. in dressmaking; from the mid 20th cent. usually of cotton or synthetic fibre and used mainly for net curtains. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > cotton or silk or man-made fibres marquisette1908 1908 Tatler 6 May (Suppl.) p. iv A simple house gown of black marquisette. 1909 Daily Chron. 12 Apr. 7/1 The soft marquisettes and satin-faced foulards. 1928 Times 9 May 11/3 A picture gown of fine gold embroidered marquisette, over peach georgette. 1957 New Yorker 5 Oct. 110/1 Its dazzling décolletage veiled in black marquisette. 1968 E. Gale From Fibres to Fabrics xii. 132 Some marquisettes are not woven, but are produced on a simple type of lace machine. 1986 P. Earnshaw Lace Machines & Machine Laces ii. 54 (caption) Raschel marquisette in synthetic yarn, with the inlay threads shogged asymmetrically. 1986 P. Earnshaw Lace Machines & Machine Laces ii. 55 A simple marquisette is sometimes called filet net, after the square-meshed knotted nets made by hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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