organdy

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Young lady in an organdy dress. Circa 1900. Valencian Museum of Ethnology.

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From French organdi, possibly derived from the French name of the city Urgench.

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organdy (countable and uncountable, plural organdies)

  1. A fine, transparent type of muslin, usually stiffened. [from 18th c.]
    • 1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 317:
      “I took it to garden-parties after I came out, with my hair curled and an organdie hat on top of the whole thing […] .”
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445:
      Beside them stood a puzzled female dwarf with a hideously rouged face as if ready for the circus; she was clad in white organdie with a marriage veil.

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