textile
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
textile/ˈtekstʌɪl/
▶noun
- 1 a type of cloth or woven fabric.
- 2 informal (among nudists) a person who wears clothes.
– origin C17: from L. textilis, from text-, texere ‘weave’.
'textile' also found in these Oxford entries:
acetate
- acrylic
- Aertex
- bafta
- byssinosis
- byssus
- clothes moth
- comb
- cotton
- cupro
- Dralon
- draper
- fabric
- felt
- fibre
- fibreglass
- flax
- fun fur
- glass fibre
- ingrain
- medallion
- mercer
- motif
- napped
- passementerie
- polyester
- pressboard
- rayon
- rhodamine
- roving
- self-coloured
- sliver
- synthetic
- Tactel
- tapestry
- texture
- tragacanth
- Turkey red
- watered silk
- wince
