toile
/twɑːl
/noun
1An early version of a finished garment made up in cheap material so that the design can be tested and perfected.She doesn't work with a toile and although she can sketch, she prefers to dive in and design without one....
- He is holding up the shoe equivalent of a toile, a pre-production model, of his first trainer.
2 [mass noun] A translucent linen or cotton fabric, used for making clothes.
2.1 short for toile de Jouy.Also in this bedroom were three pairs of early nineteenth-century French toile curtains with ball fringe....
- You can often find this shade of blue in Oriental carpets and in French toile fabrics.
- During a recent visit to Provence, he stayed in a room decorated completely in red and white toile.
Origin
Late Middle English (denoting cloth or canvas for painting on): from French toile 'cloth, web', from Latin tela 'web'.
Rhymes
- pericambium
- pericapillary
- pericard
- pericardectomy
- pericardiac
- pericardiacophrenic
- pericardial
- pericardial fluid
- pericardic
- pericardicentesis
- pericardiectomy
- pericardiocentesis
- pericardiotomy
- pericarditic
- pericarditis
- pericardium
- pericardotomy
- pericarp
- pericarpal
- pericarpial
- pericarpic
- pericarpium
- pericecal
- pericellular
- pericementitis