Marocain

Quick meaning: Marocain is a noun meaning A heavy crepe fabric of silk, wool, or both, having a cross-ribbed texture, used for apparel.

Meaning

A heavy crepe fabric of silk, wool, or both, having a cross-ribbed texture, used for apparel.

Example Sentences

Silk crepe yarns have been very widely used in the past for well-known fabrics such as crepe-de-chine, marocain and georgette.

Bianchini Ferier are also showing a great variety of crêpes, Marocains of the heaviest and best qualities that sell for 85 francs a yard, and brocaded marocains that are more crêpe Romain, […]

France is by far the largest supplier of silk piece goods to Argentina. […] The types of cloth wanted are principally flat crepe, marocain, georgettes, lingerie silk, crepe de Chine, and satin.

Rodier's favored wool fabric this spring is Crêpella, a wool crêpe marocain. It is evident that crêpe gained such favor during the past season that Rodier now applies the same process to woolens.

Word Forms

• marocains

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