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 - IMPORTUOUS
Without a port or harbor. - 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. - 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.