lisle

¹ American  

[lahyl] / laɪl /

noun

1. knit goods, as gloves or hose, made of lisle thread.

2. lisle thread.

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adjective

1. made of lisle thread.

Lisle ² American  

[leel, lahyl] / lil, laɪl /

noun

1. Leconte de Lisle.

2. Rouget de Lisle.

3. former name of Lille.

4. a town in northeastern Illinois.

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lisle British  

/ laɪl /

noun

1. 1. a strong fine cotton thread or fabric

   2. ( as modifier )

      lisle stockings

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Etymology

Origin of lisle

1850–55; named after Lisle, France, where first made

Example Sentences

“I really look forward to selling our greens this time of year because the flavor is so good,” said Mike Nolan, who grows a variety at his Earth Spring Farm in Car­lisle, Pa.

From Washington Post

Since the Japanese sacked Nanking in 1937, I have worn no silk at all—and the substituted lisle & rayon hosiery are hateful to me.

From Time

I think of orthopedic shoes, lisle stockings, underwear laundered thin and gray, coal cellars.

From Literature

There hadn't been a better one there, and she had silk stockings while most of the girls had clumsy cotton ones, or at best lisle thread.

From Project Gutenberg

For instance, already since I had had my own new things I felt that I could never bear to go back to lisle thread or cashmere stockings again.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cord
• cotton
• fiber
• filament
• hair
• ribbon
• strand
• string
• wire
• wool
• yarn