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ORGANDIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does organdie mean?
• ORGANDIE (noun)
The noun ORGANDIE has 1 sense:
1. a sheer stiff muslin
Familiarity information: ORGANDIE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sheer stiff muslin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
organdie; organdy
Hypernyms ("organdie" is a kind of...):
muslin (plain-woven cotton fabric)
Context examples
While Amy dressed, she issued her orders, and Jo obeyed them, not without entering her protest, however, for she sighed as she rustled into her new organdie, frowned darkly at herself as she tied her bonnet strings in an irreproachable bow, wrestled viciously with pins as she put on her collar, wrinkled up her features generally as she shook out the handkerchief, whose embroidery was as irritating to her nose as the present mission was to her feelings, and when she had squeezed her hands into tight gloves with three buttons and a tassel, as the last touch of elegance, she turned to Amy with an imbecile expression of countenance, saying meekly...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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