lisle
noun
knit goods, as gloves or hose, made of lisle thread.
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lisle
1 American
[lahyl]
/ laɪl /
Lisle
2
American
[leel, lahyl]
/ lil, laɪl /
lisle
British
/ laɪl /
noun
Etymology
Origin of lisle
1850–55; named after Lisle, France, where first made
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The pair that was shipped to me was disappointingly made of cotton lisle material—with my sweaty dogs, I tend to be a wool guy.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2012
His wife has abandoned lisle hose for nylon and wears a girdle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around the fire danced the delegates chanting: Make lisle the style, wear lisle for a while.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tide last week reported that during the last two months 55 manufacturers have begun to make lisle hosiery although only five did so before.
From Time Magazine Archive
I think of orthopedic shoes, lisle stockings, underwear laundered thin and gray, coal cellars.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Taking a detour into alternative rock, he began jamming with his old friend, the drummer Kevin Coleman, and later formed Smash Mouth alongside Greg Camp and Paul De Lisle.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
Paul De Lisle, the band’s lone remaining founding member, carried on with Smash Mouth, adding Zach Goode as their new lead singer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
But in 1970, Lisle Baker kept the explanation simple.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2023
They also reflect the mores of the time: One of the articles, published in the late 1960s, describes McCarthy’s then-wife, Anne De Lisle, as a “pretty English girl.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
How different these rehearsals were going to be from those of last year in the Lisle Street club-room, and how right she had been to escape from the provinces so quickly.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
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