voile

Examples

• All

• The curtains are made of voile, allowing soft light to filter into the room.

• It's afternoon, and she's had her bath, carefully arranged her sparse white hair like a cap over her balding scalp, and put on one of those thin, flower-sprigged voile dresses that old ladies used to wear in the spring and summer.

  Fiction book (1996)

• I could see the whole little leg through the voile of her sundress.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I was wearing my new pink and blue voile, which is very flattering, if I do say so.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The beautiful white voile.

  Fiction book (1996)

• I wanted to run right over to her and bury my face in the front of that voile dress and cry 'til I had no more tears to shed.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Flowered drifts of voile, peach linen with panels of pleated silk, aqua cotton, pale as the Gulf.

  Academic text (1991)

• We would cut, baste, press, fit, tuck, and imagine how grand my life would be in the beautiful new voile dress with the difficult pleats up the bodice, and the polished cotton sundress with ten panels in the skirt.

  Fiction book (1991)

• She chose a delicate voile dress for the summer wedding, which flowed beautifully in the breeze.

• This blouse is crafted from lightweight voile, perfect for warm weather and stylish layering.

Synonyms

V

viscose

vsvoile

1 5.9

A soft fabric like silk made from plant fiber used for clothes

is light and semi transparent rather than mainly silk like

T

toile

vsvoile

1 8.6

A light patterned fabric that people use for curtains and clothes

is semi transparent and plain rather than patterned and opaque

V

viscose rayon

vsvoile

6.1

A soft fabric made from plant pulp that feels like silk

is lightweight and semi transparent rather than silky and drapey

How Sheer

chiffon

20 6.7

organza

4 7.7

voile

1 8.5

lawned

7.6

linen

111 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology