Definitions for dimity

dimity dim·i·ty

Spelling: [dim-i-tee]
IPA: /ˈdɪm ɪ ti/

Dimity is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in dimity (diimty).

Definitions for dimity

noun

  1. a thin cotton fabric, white, dyed, or printed, woven with a stripe or check of heavier yarn.

Origin of dimity

1400-50; earlier dimite, late Middle English demyt Medieval Latin dimettum Greek dímiton, noun use of neuter of dímitos double-threaded, equivalent to di- di-1

Examples for dimity

She had contributed a window shade and dimity curtains; Susan a braided rug and a chair cushion.

I wonder if father hasn't got some other dimity in the store.

And at last—his head big with his first day's vanity—he climbed between the dimity curtains and fell asleep.

It can be made of silk or of dimity at 12½ cents a yard, and need not then cost more than 15 cents.

If the lawn or dimity has a colored figure, the embroidery silk or cotton may match this.

Betty says it'll match out her dimity, and I 'low to match Betty as long as I can.

dimity, dim′i-ti, n. a kind of stout white cotton cloth, striped or figured in the loom by weaving with two threads.

One was cambric, one was fine lawn or nainsook, and one of dimity.

Juliet dropped a big blue denim pillow on the ground and sat down upon it in a flutter of dimity.

There, on a little white bed with dimity curtains, lay the form of Isobel.

Word Value for dimity
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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