pannen.
/pan/, U.S. /pæn/ A soft, lustrous silk or rayon fabric with a flattened pile, resembling velvet. More fully panne velvet.
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1794 A. Young Trav. France (ed. 2) I. ii. xix. 550 St. Omers. There is a manufacture of..a kind of stuff called pannes.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Panne,..worsted plush of French manufacture.
1898 Daily News 10 Dec. 6/3 Among the new materials is that called panne, a very silky make of cloth, almost resembling velvet in softness of surface.
1923 Weekly Disp. 14 Jan. 15 A new evening model..had a trailing skirt with narrow draperies of black panne, while the upper part..was in white marocain.
1972 New Yorker 7 Oct. 24/1 (advt.) Pants are perfect for evening when they're lush panne velvet.
2001 Intelligencer Jrnl. (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 2 Oct. (Lifestyle section) b4 The lavender polyester shirts, harem-style pants made of purple crushed panne, and wrap-around skirts of a purple, lizard-skin material.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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