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Definition of toile in English: toilenoun twɑːltwɑl 1An early version of a finished garment made up in cheap material so that the design can be tested and perfected. Example sentencesExamples - She doesn't work with a toile and although she can sketch, she prefers to dive in and design without one.
- He is holding up the shoe equivalent of a toile, a pre-production model, of his first trainer.
2mass noun A translucent linen or cotton fabric, used for making clothes. - 2.1
short for toile de Jouy Example sentencesExamples - During a recent visit to Provence, he stayed in a room decorated completely in red and white toile.
- To create the top pillow on the stack, cut a bucolic scene from toile fabric and position it in the center of a removable pillow cover.
- You can often find this shade of blue in Oriental carpets and in French toile fabrics.
- Also in this bedroom were three pairs of early nineteenth-century French toile curtains with ball fringe.
- Jenny hauled the side chairs home from an estate sale and slipcovered them in cotton toile.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting cloth or canvas for painting on): from French toile 'cloth, web', from Latin tela 'web'. Rhymes Amal, Arles, banal, Barisal, Basle, Bhopal, Carl, chorale, corral, dhal, entente cordiale, Escorial, farl, femme fatale, Funchal, gayal, gnarl, halal, Karl, kraal, locale, marl, morale, musicale, Pascal, pastorale, procès-verbal, Provençal, rationale, real, rial, riyal, snarl, Taal, Taj Mahal, timbale, Vaal, Vidal, Waal Definition of toile in US English: toilenountwältwɑl 1An early version of a finished garment made up in cheap material so that the design can be tested and perfected. Example sentencesExamples - He is holding up the shoe equivalent of a toile, a pre-production model, of his first trainer.
- She doesn't work with a toile and although she can sketch, she prefers to dive in and design without one.
2A translucent linen or cotton fabric, used for making clothes. - 2.1
short for toile de Jouy Example sentencesExamples - Also in this bedroom were three pairs of early nineteenth-century French toile curtains with ball fringe.
- During a recent visit to Provence, he stayed in a room decorated completely in red and white toile.
- Jenny hauled the side chairs home from an estate sale and slipcovered them in cotton toile.
- To create the top pillow on the stack, cut a bucolic scene from toile fabric and position it in the center of a removable pillow cover.
- You can often find this shade of blue in Oriental carpets and in French toile fabrics.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting cloth or canvas for painting on): from French toile ‘cloth, web’, from Latin tela ‘web’. |