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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 curtains
Familiarity information: DIMITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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