voile

«voile» in Mova's school dictionary: A thin, light, see-through cloth made of cotton, silk or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (voile, uncountable; voiles for kinds)

meaning for a pupil

A thin, light, see-through cloth made of cotton, silk or polyester, used for curtains, dresses and blouses. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in clothes, sewing and home shopping. Voile curtains let light into a room but stop people from seeing in easily. The word comes from French, where it means "veil". Phrases: "voile curtains", "cotton voile".

examples

• We hung white voile curtains in the kitchen. tree →
• The summer dress was made of light cotton voile. tree →
• Sunlight shone softly through the voile. tree →
• Nan sewed a blouse from blue voile. tree →
• Voile is so thin you can almost see through it. tree →
• The shop sells voile by the metre. tree →

note

Uncountable: "some voile", "a metre of voile". Pronounced VOYL (rhymes with "boil") in English, or vwahl in the French way. It is related to "veil".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «voile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.