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DIMITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dimity mean? 

DIMITY (noun)
  The noun DIMITY has 1 sense:

1. a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtainsplay

  Familiarity information: DIMITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIMITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dimity" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)


 Context examples 


She saw a large, well-proportioned apartment, an handsome dimity bed, arranged as unoccupied with an housemaid's care, a bright Bath stove, mahogany wardrobes, and neatly painted chairs, on which the warm beams of a western sun gaily poured through two sash windows!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)



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