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prettygoodwordchiffon (shi-FON, SHIF-on) - n., a sheer, lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or rayon; any purely ornamental accessory on a woman's dress, such as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc. adj., of, relating to, or resembling the fabric chiffon; (cooking) made light and fluffy by the addition of beaten egg whites or gelatin.
Another plain-weave fabric made with tight-twist yarns. Yes, surprisingly, I apparently have never run this word before, to my surprise, or if I did it was before I migrated to LiveJournal/Dreamwidth. Taken around 1760 from French, where it was used in the ornamental piece of ribbon or lace sense, originally rag/scrap, from chiffe, old rag, alteration of Middle French chipe, from Middle English chip, wood-shaving, from Old English ċipp, chip/wood-shaving, from *ċippian, to cut/hew, back through Germanic roots to PIE *ǵeyb-, to split/divide. So, yes, a rare migration from English to French, and then back.
---L.
Another plain-weave fabric made with tight-twist yarns. Yes, surprisingly, I apparently have never run this word before, to my surprise, or if I did it was before I migrated to LiveJournal/Dreamwidth. Taken around 1760 from French, where it was used in the ornamental piece of ribbon or lace sense, originally rag/scrap, from chiffe, old rag, alteration of Middle French chipe, from Middle English chip, wood-shaving, from Old English ċipp, chip/wood-shaving, from *ċippian, to cut/hew, back through Germanic roots to PIE *ǵeyb-, to split/divide. So, yes, a rare migration from English to French, and then back.
---L.
