PREFERRED TERM
Chiffon
DEFINITION
- n. From the French "chiffe". A tabby (plain-weave), lightweight, diaphanous fabric, made with hard-twisted yarn. Originally was silk yarn, but nowadays is made up from nylon or other synthetic fibres. It is dyed or printed and often used as "drpae over silk rayon". Sometimes this term has a sense of "light in weight".
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- «Art & Architecture Thesaurus (Getty Research Institute)». Accedido 20 de noviembre de 2018. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Chiffon (tissu)
French
Chiffon
Italian
shirting
Chiffon
Spanish
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