Definitions for chenille

chenille che·nille

Spelling: [shuh-neel]
IPA: /ʃəˈnil/

Chenille is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in chenille (ceehilln).

Definitions for chenille

noun

  1. a velvety cord or yarn of silk or worsted, for embroidery, fringes, etc.
  2. fabric made with a fringed silken thread used as the weft in combination with wool or cotton.
  3. any fabric with a protruding pile, as in certain rayon bedspreads.
  4. a deep-pile, durable, woolen carpeting with chenille weft: the most expensive power-loomed floor covering.

Origin of chenille

1730-40; French: velvety cord, literally, caterpillar Latin canīcula, with etymological sense “little dog,” though attested only in senses “shrewish woman, dogfish, Sirius” (see Examples for chenille

They are, however, by far the best embroideresses in chenille,—silk and gold.

About the easiest body to make is one of chenille ribbed with tinsel.

Portières may be made of cloth, of knotted cords, or chenille.

I consider that, with the chenille swallow, it is worth thirty shillings.

Instead of sewing-silk, standards had best be worked with chenille, such as comes on purpose for embroidering.

A not very promising substance to embroider with is chenille.

The chenille is worked one way, and the silver goes the other way, contrary to regular crochet work.

She held up a string of chenille monkeys, and danced them up and down.

The boy added that the chenille was so ugly that it was without doubt German and no good.

The chenille must pass through the material freely, so as not to draw it.

Word Value for chenille
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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