toile
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French toile. Doublet of tela.
Noun edit
toile (countable and uncountable, plural toiles)
- plain or simple twilled fabric
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French toile, earlier teile, from Latin tēla.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
toile f (plural toiles)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: tuval
Further reading edit
- “toile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Most likely from Anglo-Norman toilier, but possibly from Middle Dutch tuylen.
Verb edit
toile
- Alternative form of toilen
Etymology 2 edit
From Anglo-Norman toile.
Noun edit
toile
- Alternative form of toyle
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From earlier form teile, from Latin tēla.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
toile oblique singular, f (oblique plural toiles, nominative singular toile, nominative plural toiles)
Descendants edit
- French: toile
Scottish Gaelic edit
Noun edit
toile f