noun. A soft woven fabric, often of silk or cotton, having a crosswise rib.

noun. Originally, a hood covering the face, worn by nuns of certain orders; also, a veil worn by women, and covering the head and shoulders, the word having different meanings at different periods from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century.

noun. Hence The material of which such a garment was made.

noun. A silk fabric having a very light “grain” or cord, in distinction from ottoman, which has a heavy cord (gros grain), and from surah, which is twilled.

noun. A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

noun. A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.

noun. a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton

"When the dress of silk faille and feathers still hadn't arrived just days before her daughter's bat mitzvah, Lesley Wolman called Savannah, the Santa Monica, Calif., boutique where she'd ordered the dress at a trunk show."

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