barège
/bəˈreɪʒ
/noun [mass noun]
A light, silky dress fabric resembling gauze, typically made from wool.She ought to have worn a white dress as the others did but Grandmother said her new pink barege would do....
- She did her hair according to the directions of the hairdresser, and put on the barege dress spread out upon the bed.
- Figure 1 is in violet barege, of which the stripes are a shade darker than the material.
Origin
French, named after the village of Barèges in SW France, where it was originally made.
Rhymes
- recoagulation
- recoal
- recoat
- recock
- recode
- recogitate
- recogitation
- recognisable
- recognisance
- recognisant
- recognise
- recognisingly
- recognisor
- recognition
- recognitional
- recognition call
- recognition color
- recognition colour
- recognition grammar
- recognition mark
- recognition marking
- recognition picketing
- recognition scene
- recognition service
- recognition signal