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Fabric > Grisette
PREFERRED TERM
Grisette  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the French "grisette" meaning grey. Originally, a dress fabric, from France, grey-coloured, made from diverse fibres as silk, cotton, hair, wool. Lately, it was produced in different colours.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Grisette (tissu)

French

Grisetta

Italian

Griseta

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/253
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