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Moire

noun
1.
Silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern.  Synonym: watered-silk.





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"Moire" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the Plains. Reared in affluence, no pains had been spared with the daughter's education. She was a graduate of one of the principal seminaries, and spoke French with a perfect Benicia accent. Peerlessly beautiful, she was dressed in a white moire antique robe trimmed with tulle. That simple rosebud, with which most heroines exclusively decorate their hair, was all she wore in ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
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... but he had a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the world. He held a great place in all ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
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Words linked to "Moire" :   patterned, material, fabric, cloth, textile


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