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TAFFETA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does taffeta mean?
• TAFFETA (noun)
The noun TAFFETA has 1 sense:
1. a crisp smooth lustrous fabric
Familiarity information: TAFFETA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A crisp smooth lustrous fabric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("taffeta" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Context examples
See to the noble armor set forth, and the costly taffeta—and oh, Ford, see to where the scrivener sits with the pigments and the ink-horns, and the rolls of sheepskin as white as the Beaulieu napery!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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