• n. From the French "chenille" meaning hairy caterpillar, and the Provençal "canilha" and the Latin "canicula", meaning little dog, from its hairy appearance. It is a type of yarn which has a pile protunding on all sides. It simulates a caterpillar. It is used as a weft or filling in reversible bath mats, bedspreads, rugs, heavy drapery fabrics, fringes and tassels.

• Velvet

• 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; Segal, William. Encyclopedia of Textiles. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1972

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