Word Meanings - FOULARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

Related words: (words related to FOULARD)

• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• IMPORTING
  Full of meaning. Shak.
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• IMPORTUOUS
  Without a port or harbor.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• ELSEWHERE
  1. In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere. 2. In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• IMPORT
  + portare to bear. Sense 3 comes through F. importer, from the Latin. 1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• COTTONARY
  Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
• COTTONWOOD
  An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• NONIMPORTATION
  Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• DEMATERIALIZE
  To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
• REIMPORTATION
  The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.