Viyella
/vʌɪˈɛlə
/noun [mass noun] trademark
A fabric made from a twilled mixture of cotton and wool: [as modifier]: a green Viyella blouse...
- No wonder those who still wear tweed jackets, Viyella shirts and ‘frocks’, as opposed to dresses, can't stand them in return.
- Coats will be exiting the apparel business in order to focus on its profitable global threads business, as well as its Jaeger and Viyella retail operations.
- Clients include Viyella, Windsmoor, Brook Taverner and many more; they have a successful website and are planning to introduce a company pension scheme.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Via Gellia, a valley in Derbyshire where it was first made.
Rhymes
- Treasure State
- treasure trove
- treasury
- Treasury bench
- Treasury bill
- Treasury bond
- Treasury note
- treat
- treatable
- treater
- treatise
- treatment
- treat someone like dirt
- treat something lightly
- treaty
- Treaty claim
- treaty Indian
- Treaty industry
- treaty port
- Treaty settlement
- Trebbiano
- Trebizond
- treble
- treble bell
- treble chance