1818 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 368 On the Moiré Metallique, or Fer blanc moiré.

1818 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 368 When the moiré has been formed, the plate is to be varnished and polished, the varnish being tinted with any glazing colour, and thus the red, blue, green, yellow, and pearl coloured moirés are manufactured.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 863 Moirée métallique, called in this country crystallized tin-plate, is a variegated primrose appearance, produced upon the surface of tin-plate, by applying to it in a heated state some dilute nitro-muriatic acid for a few seconds, then washing it with water, drying, and coating it with lacquer.

1888 J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 440 Moiré, the name given to the wavy appearance, comparable to that of watered silk, presented by thin plates of mica under crossed nicols.

1901 F. Norris Octopus i. vi. 241 The pale, amber-tinted shadows under her chin, coming and going over the creamy whiteness of the skin like the changing moire of silk.

1953 H. A. Chinn Television Broadcasting i. 27 The most objectionable moiré is probably that produced by the blanking pulses because they usually represent the greatest possible black-to-white contrast ratio.

1967 V. Strauss Printing Industry iv. 194/2 Moiré can also be introduced in presswork by defective overprinting.

1998 Windows Mag. (Nexis) 1 July 108/2 The two most visible display problems were moiré along the left and right edges in the higher-resolution modes [etc.].

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 504/1 ‘Moiré antique’, for garments, various colours.

1851 Rep. Juries Great Exhib. (1852) 368 Gros-de-Naples, glacé, and checked moiré, and satin.

1883 M. E. Braddon Golden Calf I. ii. 43 Miss Pew..went rustling up and down the terrace..in her armour of apple-green moiré.

1935 M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xvii. 286 She even bought one of our models... She chose a very lovely grey moiré.

1969 V. Nabokov Ada i. v. 37 Presently they all strolled back, the governess shaking in grief her big-nosed, big-chinned head under the moiré of her parasol.

1905 R. Fry in Burlington Mag. Nov. 97/2 Finally he used for the halos and for the moire pattern of his robes thin washes and stipplings of gold.

1930 Science 2 May p. xiv Dr. Ives also suggested a means of copying such pictures in color, by photographing them with similar ridged film, but with the ridges running at right angles to those in the negative, thus avoiding troublesome ‘moiré’ effects.

1949 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 196 174 For some intermediate angle there will be neither compression nor extension, and this direction is shown by the stripes in the moiré pattern.

1956 J. Guild Interference Syst. Crossed Diffraction Gratings p. v Though attention was called to them by Lord Rayleigh as long ago as 1874 the fringes produced by crossed diffraction gratings, now usually termed moiré fringes, have somehow escaped mention in the textbooks of physical optics.

1963 Sci. Amer. May 63/1 Moiré patterns sometimes plague the printer whenever he is obliged to print two or more halftone impressions one atop the other, which he must do in making multicolored reproductions.

1971 J. H. Smith Digital Logic i. 3 Automatic programmed machines are..made to an extremely high accuracy, e.g. 5 000 steps (digits) per inch are easily realised using moiré fringe devices.

1984 R. Silverberg Conglomeroid Cocktail Party 204 An '83 model with sharply raked lines and a sophisticated moire-pattern skin, now somewhat pitted and rusted by neglect.

1993 Byte Dec. 120/1 Poorly designed screens can also generate moiré patterns when the tiny dots line up in secondary patterns.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 551/2 The means which I had employed for moiring tin-plates.

1883 W. H. Wahl Galvanoplastic Manip. lxv. 521 The solution [sc. salt, or sal ammoniac] may be applied to the surfaces to be ‘moiréed’, with the aid of a sponge.

1979 Malahat Rev. Apr. 65 Without warning, and as if I were looking down the tube of a kaleidoscope, the merest shake occurred—moiréed the garden—rectified itself.