toilinette

English

Etymology

French toilinet. See toil (“a net”).

Noun

toilinette (countable and uncountable, plural toilinettes)

1. A cloth formerly used for waistcoats, having a weft of woollen yarn and a warp of cotton and silk.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “toilinette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)