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textile

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L341131 on Wikidata ↗

noun

  1. cloth or other woven or similar material
L43762 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛk.staɪl/ / /ˈtek.stɑel/ / /ˈtek.staɪl/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).

  1. Clothing compulsive.

    a textile beach

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).

  1. Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.

    Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)

  2. A non-nudist.