TULLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tulle mean? 

• TULLE (noun)
  The noun TULLE has 1 sense:

1. a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TULLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

mesh; meshing; meshwork; net; network (an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals)

 Context examples 

I study as well as play, and as for this—with a little gesture toward her dress—why, tulle is cheap, posies to be had for nothing, and I am used to making the most of my poor little things.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Tarlatan and tulle were cheap at Nice, so she enveloped herself in them on such occasions, and following the sensible English fashion of simple dress for young girls, got up charming little toilettes with fresh flowers, a few trinkets, and all manner of dainty devices, which were both inexpensive and effective.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)