Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fine, often starched net of silk, rayon, or nylon, used especially for veils, tutus, or gowns.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fine and thin silk net, originally made with bobbins (compare bobbin-net), but now woven by machinery. It is used for women's veils and in dressmaking; it is sometimes ornamented with dots like those of blondelace, but is more commonly plain.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns
Etymologies
- French, after Tulle, a city of south-central France. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But the tulle is not that of fairyland; it is more like the “white samite, mystic, wonderful” of King Arthur [sic].”
“I say hair, but really I mean tulle, which is pretending to be hair.”
“Conjunctivitis has also been recorded from wearing of "tulle" dresses.”
“This presents alternately, in its movement, entire and punctured spaces, the former for receiving the blow of the punch and the latter for allowing passage at the desired moment to the plunger as it goes to fasten the dots upon the tulle which is passing along underneath the channel, D.”
“The word "tulle" itself conjures images of stiff, scratchy pink tutus at childhood ballet lessons, but Rodarte's silk translation is far more grown-up, looking more at home at a gala event than at a dance recital.”
“Lulubelle features designers such as tulle, Nick&Mo, easy money, Paige denim, honey dew, velvet and blue platypus.”
“One standout was a pearl-embroidered silk chiffon gown with tulle skirt that came bursting out of a Moroccan Beni-embroidered coat -- you'll know it when you see it.”
The Huffington Post: Gazelle Emami: Oscar de la Renta Fall 2011 (PHOTOS): Park Avenue Meets Morocco
“Tolstoy seems to know not only about her feelings of excitement, but also about the arrangement of her tulle dress over her pink slip and elaborate coiffure "surmounted by a rose and two small leaves".”
“A woman wearing cloudy froth sorts pewter and holds a blue bottle to the sunlight, then strokes a gilded mirror for the image of an 1890s great-grandmother, young in a tulle gown, plush stole, and tiara.”
“Abillowy frock of mauve and pink tulle, with a tiny jewelled bodice, is completedby a tinted wig in the same primula shade, while glittering bracelets, caught withwisps of tulle, show up the fairylike wrists manipulating a great fan of snow-whiteplumes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tulle’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Sophaloaf's list
Favorites!
belle, starfish, photography, buddha, dinosaur, floccinaucinihili..., hypoallergenic, sailor, gorgeous, adhesive, imagination, artichokes and 55 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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window dressing
chemise, gossamer, tweed, pleat, fold, cuff, button, shirttails, ascot, cummerbund, velvet, silk and 104 more...
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wingblossom's Words
flicker, wrinkle, solipsism, tea, aurora, lilt, burnt, crescent, gale, pocket, ephemeral, candied and 136 more...
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Tip-Top Toponymic
Place names that have entered general speech. Toponyms that interest me in other ways are on Place Names Of Distinction
hamburger, wiener, finlandisation, vernissage, hackney, venetians, bohemian, anti-macassar, berliner, cravat, calico, serendipity and 113 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (T)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
tabard, tadpole, taffeta, taffy, talisman, tallgrass, tam, tamarind, tamarack, tambourine, tango, tansy and 144 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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...another list...
I've no idea where I got this page full of words, but whatever it is, I want to find it again. May have duplicate words from other lists.
bicameral, aphelion, dirigible, parhelion, flocculus, vernier, corticate, oxalis, pandanus, calabash, plumbago, jonquil and 217 more...
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xstala's Words
oneiric, inchoate, clandestine, tangerine, brusque, clout, benedictine, argonaut, juniper, tulle, zealot, vesper and 175 more...
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Theophilus North
Words from the novel by Thornton Wilder.
Theophilus, bicycle, Newport, cully, Persis, Hard-hearted Hannah, lazaret, jalopy, Gulliver, tennis, typewrite, breathings and 290 more...
Tweets
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