CHIFFON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chiffon mean? 

• CHIFFON (noun)
  The noun CHIFFON has 1 sense:

1. a sheer fabric of silk or rayon

  Familiarity information: CHIFFON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIFFON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sheer fabric of silk or rayon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chiffon" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

As we approached, the door flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy pink chiffon at her neck and wrists.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)