georgette

See also: Georgette

English

Etymology

From French georgette, named after Georgette de la Plante, French dressmaker.

Noun

georgette (countable and uncountable, plural georgettes)

1. A thin lightweight silk or cotton fabric with a matte finish.
   • 1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 68:

     She looked away from the stage at an enormously stout lady promenading in a black and salmon georgette dress.

   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 73:

     Martha began sarcastically to explain why it was that even if she had been twelve she could not have worn this pink frilled georgette to the Van Rensbergs' house, since nice little English girls were not for export.

   • 2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 62:

     Silk chiffon and silk georgette. Two thin, thin materials that cannot be confused with each other.

Translations

fabric

• Bulgarian: жоржет m (žoržet)
• Greek: ζορζέτα (el) f (zorzéta)
• Hungarian: zsorzsett (hu)
• Irish: seoirséad m
• Japanese: ジョーゼット (jōzetto), 経緯縮緬 (たてよこちりめん, tateyoko chirimen)
• Persian: ژرژت (fa) (žoržet)
• Polish: żorżeta (pl) f
• Turkish: jorjet (tr)