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Moire   Listen
noun
Moire  n.  
1.
Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.
2.
A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces; moiré.





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"Moire" Quotes from Famous Books



... shabby thing in the house—a wizened little woman, with a wicked old Jewish face, and one shoulder higher than the other, dressed in a shiny black moire gown, years after moires had been exploded, and with a rag of old lace upon her sleek black hair—raven black hair, and the only good thing about ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon


Words linked to "Moire" :   cloth, patterned, material, textile, fabric, watered


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