matelassé

See also: matelasse

English

Etymology

French matelassé (“cushioned, covered as with a mattress”).

Noun

matelassé (countable and uncountable, plural matelassés)

1. A heavy fabric, composed of two layers of cloth, used to form a quilted surface.

Adjective

matelassé (not comparable)

1. Ornamented by means of an imitation or suggestion of quilting, the surface being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief.

   matelassé silks

Anagrams

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French

Participle

matelassé (feminine matelassée, masculine plural matelassés, feminine plural matelassées)

1. past participle of matelasser

Further reading

• “matelassé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

matelassé (invariable)

1. padded, quilted