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Webster 1913 Edition


Organdy

{

Or′gan-die

,

Or′gan-dy

}
,
Noun.
[F.
organdi
.]
A kind of transparent light but stiff muslin.

Definition 2024


organdy

organdy

English

Young lady in an organdy dress. Circa 1900. Valencian Museum of Ethnology.

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Noun

organdy (plural organdies)

  1. A fine, transparent fabric made from cotton, and usually stiffened.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 445:
      Beside them stood a puzzled female dwarf with a hideously rouged face as if ready for the circus; she was clad in white organdie with a marriage veil.

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