dimity
/ˈdɪmɪti
/noun [mass noun]
A hard-wearing cotton fabric woven with stripes or checks: a nightcap in white dimity edged with lace [as modifier]: gay dimity curtains...
- Truss a few starlets into whalebone corsets and swathe them in yards of dimity.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Italian dimito or medieval Latin dimitum, from Greek dimitos, from di- 'twice' + mitos 'warp thread'; the origin of the final -y is unknown.
Rhymes
- gramma pie
- grammar
- grammar checker
- grammarian
- grammar school
- -grammatic
- grammatical
- grammaticalise
- grammaticality
- grammaticalization
- grammaticalize
- grammatically
- grammaticalness
- grammatology
- gramme
- grammie
- gram-molecular weight
- Grammy
- gramophone
- gramophone record
- gramophonic
- gramp
- Grampian
- Grampian Mountains
- gramps