dimity
/ˈdɪmɪti
/noun [mass noun]
A hard-wearing cotton fabric woven with stripes or checks: a nightcap in white dimity edged with lace [as modifier]: gay dimity curtains...
- Truss a few starlets into whalebone corsets and swathe them in yards of dimity.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Italian dimito or medieval Latin dimitum, from Greek dimitos, from di- 'twice' + mitos 'warp thread'; the origin of the final -y is unknown.
Rhymes
- environmentalism
- environmentalist
- environmental label
- environmental labeling
- environmental labelling
- environmentally
- environmentally friendly
- environmentally sensitive
- Environmentally Sensitive Area
- environmentally sound
- environmentally unfriendly
- environmental management
- environmental medicine
- environmental psychologist
- environmental psychology
- environmental racism
- environmental refugee
- environmental science
- environmental services
- environment committee
- environment-conscious
- environment-friendliness
- environment group
- environment issue
- environment-minded