paduasoy

English

Alternative forms

• padesoy

Etymology

From Padua (“a place name in Italy”) + French soie (“silk”). Compare French pou-de-soie, peau de soie.

Noun

paduasoy (countable and uncountable, plural paduasoys)

1. A rich and heavy silk material.
2. A garment made from this material.
   • 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:

     [M]y wife herself retained a passion for her crimson paduasoy, because I formerly happened to say it became her.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paduasoy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)