Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lightweight twill or plain-woven fabric of silk or silk and cotton, usually having a small printed design.
- n. An article of clothing, especially a necktie or scarf, made of this fabric.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A soft, thin, and flexible washable silk, without twill. It was originally made in India, but is now successfully produced in the south of France.
- n. Hence A silk handkerchief, especially one used as a cravat or to tie around the neck.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, usually with a printed pattern on it. It was originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.
- n. an article of clothing made of foulard{1}, such as a neckpiece.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a light plain-weave or twill-weave silk or silklike fabric (usually with a printed design)
Etymologies
- From French foulard. (Wiktionary)
- French. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Cendall was a very fine, thin silk fit for summer wear, resembling what is now called foulard; say was the coarsest and cheapest sort of silk, and was used for upholstery as well as clothing.”
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
“Yet with the economic disparities, immigration issues, higher unemployment and Sarkozy the hardliner president enforcing the ban on women/girls wearing the 'foulard' scarf in the workplace or school who knows?”
“They saw a plain figure dressed in a pink silk of the kind that is tempered by the word "foulard," and a plain face that wore a look of love of life that the queens envied.”
“Carla Crosta Silk foulard 1989 by Carla Crosta on show in Milan.”
“When you meet a chateau owner in Bordeaux, his hands are smooth and he's wearing a foulard.”
The Wall Street Journal: Burgundy: When It's Good, It's Very, Very Good...
“The star at our table was Aubert de Villaine, the 71-year-old proprietor of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, one of the few Burgundian vignerons who probably wears a foulard from time to time.”
The Wall Street Journal: Burgundy: When It's Good, It's Very, Very Good...
“In fact, the French have an entire vocabulary for differentiating kinds of scarves: foulard for a classic, lightweight silk scarf; é charpe for a thicker wool scarf; and variations on the foulard, like the smaller gavroche and the square carr é .”
“Rule #1: Learn how to tie a scarf because a silk foulard has adorned the necks of the loveliest ladies throughout history.”
“It gives a little bling to the foulard and the masculine touch gives it an astute edge.”
“Fabio leans in conspiratorially, adjusting his silk foulard.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foulard’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 410 more...
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Fibers & Fabrics
zibeline, havelock, pashmina, qiviut, sartorial, noil, balbriggan, fichu, bombazine, cambric, placket, gabardine and 28 more...
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Handkerchiefs, etc.
handkerchief, kerchief, veronica, sudary, sudarium, hankie, keverchief, neckcloth, neckerchief, maniple, orarium, bandana and 41 more...
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Originally
Being a list of words which have the word "originally" in their definitions. Sometimes this takes the form "originally... now...."
leave, primitively, sherry, boulevard, pressboard, Zouave, wolfhound, Babenberg, kumiss, Chickasaw, azalea, bombardon and 19 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 224 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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patterns
ergodic, stochastic, stereopsis, echolocation, holocation, broker, map, intarsia, encipher, ocellus, muslin, mandelbrot set and 159 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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Henderson the Rain King
Words taken from Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.
yellowback, unkillable, swack, hoarfrost, decapotable, brownian, mackinaw, taxwise, oratorio, picaresque, masonite, catalpa and 109 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Marginilia
intertextuality, queer, serendipity, eerie, semiotics, schadenfreude, calliope, logophile, marginalia, reductio ad absurdum, dabble, minutia and 141 more...
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the worshipful company of haberdashers
NB: this list being not limited to haberdashery in the strictest sense, but also including items of the milliner's trade, the mercer's trade, and the tailor's trade, it is to be noted that I just r...
button, ribbon, damask, silk, satin, wool, gabardine, felt, trilby, haberdashery, velvet, linen and 138 more...
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