“challis”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

challis

释义

challis
(ˈtʃælɪs, ‖ ʃali)
[In mod.F. challis, chalys, chaly: but the name is app. of Eng. origin, and not improbably from the surname Challis.]
A fine silk and worsted fabric, very pliable and without gloss, used for ladies' dresses, ‘introduced at Norwich about 1832, where it speedily became fashionable’ (Beck Draper's Dict.). Also attrib.
1849Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 476 Broad cloth and silks, challis and shawls.1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. I. vi. 174 She wore a flowered-challis gown.1882Beck Draper's Dict., Challis was made on a similar principle to the Norwich crape, only thinner and softer, composed of much finer materials, and instead of a glossy surface, as in Norwich crapes, the object was to produce it without gloss, and very pliable and clothy.
Hence challis-printer (Simmonds, Comm. Dict.).

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