Word Meanings - CHIFFON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc. 2. A kind of soft gauzy material used for ruches, trimmings, etc.

• Materialization
  The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
• Womanhead
  Alt. of Womanhede
• WOMANHEADWOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.
• Dressing
  of Dress
• Materialized
  of Materialize
• Womanhede
  Womanhood.
• WOMANSCHRISTIANTEMPERANCEUNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• Dress coat
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• Materializing
  of Materialize
• Womanhood
  The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
• Materialize
  To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
• Womanish
  Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate.
• Adjunction
  The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
• Dress goods
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
• Materially
  In the state of matter.
• Womanize
  To make like a woman; to make effeminate.
• Adjunctive
  Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

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