voile
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See also: voilé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French voile (“veil”). Doublet of veil and velum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /vɔɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔɪl
Noun
[edit]voile (countable and uncountable, plural voiles)
- A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses.
- 1920, United States Tariff Commission, William Alexander Graham Clark, Henry Chalmers, Blanche C. Howlett, Cotton Yarn: Import and Export Trade in Relation to the Tariff, page 80:
- The domestic voile made from imported gray yarns and woven in the United States is the best combination to be had.
- 1932, Hiram T. Nones, Philippine Cotton Piece-Goods Market[1], page 14:
- Cheap narrow voiles.—Plain color voiles practically are off the market. […] Better grades of voiles usually come in the 39-inch width, […] .
- 2006, Jorie Johnson, Feltmaking and Wool Magic[2], page 84:
- Pull out the basting thread, gently remove the voile from the three-minute sample, and reshape the sample with a steam iron.
Descendants
[edit]- → Irish: voil
Translations
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From an Old French voil, veil, from Latin vēlum, from Proto-Indo-European.
Noun
[edit]voile m (plural voiles)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: воа́л (voál)
- → English: voile
- → Irish: voil
- → Italian: voile
- → Romanian: voal
- → Russian: вуаль (vualʹ)
- → Vietnamese: voan
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Old French voile, veile, veille, from Vulgar Latin *vēla, from the plural of Latin vēlum, from Proto-Indo-European.
Noun
[edit]voile f (plural voiles)
- (countable) sail
- Hissons la grande voile, matelots !
- Raise the mainsail, seamen!
- (uncountable, sports) sailing
- La voile, il n’y a rien de mieux pour se détendre ! J’en ai fait tout le week-end.
- Sailing, there's nothing better for relaxing! I did it all weekend.
Derived terms
[edit]- à voile et à vapeur
- faire de la voile
- hisser les voiles
- mettre les voiles
- planche à voile
- voile latine
- voiler
- voilier
- vol à voile
Further reading
[edit]- “voile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French voile. Doublet of vela.
Noun
[edit]voile m (invariable)
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *vēla, from the plural of vēlum.
Noun
[edit]voile oblique singular, f (oblique plural voiles, nominative singular voile, nominative plural voiles)
- sail (large piece of fabric attached to the mast of a watercraft)
Descendants
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]voile
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