Definitions for moires

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moires moire

Spelling: [mwahr, mawr, mohr]

IPA: /mwɑr, mɔr, moʊr/

Moires is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in moires (eimors).

Definitions for moires

noun

1. any moiré fabric.
2. a design pressed on silk, rayon, etc., by engraved rollers.
3. any silk, rayon, etc., fabric with a watery or wavelike appearance.
4. Printing. an interference pattern of dots appearing in the print of process color.

adjective

1. (of silks and other fabrics) presenting a watery or wavelike appearance.

Origin of moires

1650-60; French English mohair

Examples for moires

The skirt is trimmed with five moire bands with biais at their edges.

Heavy mohair, cotton, or silk and cotton cloth, with worsted or moire face.

On the body there are two rows of moire and three on each band of the skirt.

Many gems of binding are adorned with fly-leaves of moire silk, or rich colored satin.

moire, mwor, n. watered silk: a watered appearance on metals or textile fabrics.

moire—The water effect produced on silk, moreen, and like fabrics.

The bride's aunt wore her moire antique, with coral bracelets, and at breakfast in the restaurant she wept.

This machine is also made to I produce the "moire luster" finish.

Dress of moire antique, ornamented with narrow velvet ribbons, about three-eighths of an inch wide.

The opening is confined by five moire bands, each with a bow of the same.