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Definitions for Taffeta

[1] a medium-weight or light-weight fabric of acetate, nylon, rayon, or silk, usually smooth, crisp, and lustrous, plain-woven, and with a fine crosswise rib effect.
[2] any of various other fabrics of silk, linen, wool, etc., in use at different periods.
[3] of or resembling taffeta.
[4] a crisp lustrous plain-weave silk, rayon, etc, used esp for women's clothes (as modifier ) a taffeta petticoat
[5] any of various similar fabrics

Words related to Taffeta

thread, fiber, tulle, mantua, samite, tussore, tussah, pongee, sendal

Words nearby Taffeta

taenioid, taf, tafe, tafelwein, taffarel, taffeta, taffeta weave, taffrail, taffy, taffy apple, tafia

Origin of Taffeta

1325–75; Middle English taffata < Medieval Latin ≪ Persian tāftah silken or linen cloth, noun use of past participle of tāftan to twist, spin

Word origin for Taffeta

C14: from Medieval Latin taffata, from Persian tāftah spun, from tāftan to spin

Synonyms for Taffeta

fiber, thread, tulle, mantua, pongee, samite, tussah, tussore, sendal