dimity
Americannoun
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dimities
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dimity
1400–50; earlier dimite, late Middle English demyt < Medieval Latin dimettum < Greek dímiton, noun use of neuter of dímitos double-threaded, equivalent to di- di- 1 + mít ( os ) warp thread + -os adj. suffix; source of final syllable unclear
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Coop cooperated: he shied at couches and dimity all his life, but only on-camera.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan.
From Time Magazine Archive
For hot summer afternoons batiste, dimity and organdy will be cool and fresh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Hoover appeared wearing a white and blue dimity gown modeled in the fashion of 1870 and copied from one of her mother's photographs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Green dimity curtains hung over the windows in Theodora’s room, the wallpaper was decked with green garlands, the bedspread and quilt were green, the marble-topped dresser and the huge wardrobe were the same.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
The imports are gold and silver, thread, silks, gold stuffs, dimities, rich and curious draperies, rice, muskets and other arms, high priced toys and small goods; and Parmesian cheese.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
She showed Morag that in all the shifts and dimities she washed for her, a hole came just above where her heart would be.
From The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum
And if she didn't buy embroideries and dimities, she would purchase something else with it.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
The Cloth Finishing establishment bleaches, starches, and calenders dimities, muslins, percales, and shirtings, and folds and wraps them for shipping.
From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark
Her bonnet is the firmament, The universe her shoe, The stars the trinkets at her belt, Her dimities of blue.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series by Mabel Loomis Todd
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