Mar 13, 2009 12:24
15 yrs ago
English term
nainsook
GBK
English to French
Tech/Engineering
Textiles / Clothing / Fashion
Definition from
weavers.org.uk:
A lightweight, plain-weave, cotton cloth with a soft finish, although French nainsook has a crisp finish. Sometimes this fabric is made with a closely woven satin or twill stripe forming a corded effect at intervals across the fabric. Often used in the manufacture of lingerie and dresses. The word nainsook comes from the Hindi words nain, meaning eye, and sukh, meaning delight. This fabric dates back to seventeenth century India when it was sometimes called nansook, nyansook or nainsook and was thought to give 'pleasure to the eye'.
Example sentences:
Nainsook and lawn were made in extra fine, fine and regular cottons with the extra fine nainsook having a silk finish. (fabrics.net)
This simple mode is illustrated in linen with Swiss insertion, edge lace and ribbon-run beading and also in nainsook with Valenciennes lace, insertion, ribbon and beading. (vintagevictorian.com)
The softest and finest fabrics are used for these dresses such as French and Persian lawn, batiste, handkerchief linen and nainsook. (smockingstore.com)
Proposed translations
(French)
| 5 +1 | nansouk |
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| 5 +1 | nansouk-nanzouk |
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Proposed translations
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France
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Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) 
Works in: English to French, Italian to French
nansouk
Definition from
Encyclopédie Larousse:
Tissu de coton léger employé en lingerie et en broderie
Example sentences:
Robe de nansouk bordée de linon (Costumes Parisiens)
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3 days 1 hr
nansouk-nanzouk
les 2 termes sont possibles
Definition from
Diadico:
Etoffe de coton reconnaissable à sa légèreté et à sa ressemblance avec la soie.<br />Elle est utilisée en lingerie.
Example sentences:
nansouk /nɑ̃.suk/ masculin 1. Sorte de belle mousseline. Tous nos autres produits, en calicots, en cretonnes, en percales, en jaconas, en nansouks, subissent tous différents apprêts… on donne plus généralement aux nansouks un apprêt, dit de l'Inde, qui, avec le blanc, coûte 9 centimes le mètre. (Wiktionnaire)
Des tilleuls pâles ombrageaient les murs et les fenêtres, voilées à l'intérieur par des stores de nansouk à ganse rouge (Adam, Enf. Aust., 1902, p.231). (CNRTL)
Le nanzouk est un tissu fin et mou de la mousseline souvent à utilisé pour faire l'habillement des bébés. (Encyclopédie française)
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