英:[vɔɪl]
美:[vɔɪl]
英:[vɔɪl]
美:[vɔɪl]
noun
a sheer, open-weave fabric made from wool, silk, cotton, or rayon, and used esp. for lightweight dresses or curtains.
1882年,用于女装的薄材料,源自法语 voile “面纱”(参见 veil(n.))。
French, veil, from Old French, from Latin vela, neuter plural of velum
The first known use of voile was in 1889
volatileadjective
easily becoming a vapor at a fairly low temperature
a volatile solvent
likely to change suddenly or quickly the stock market is volatile
a volatile temper
voilenoun
a soft sheer fabric used for summer dresses and for curtains
1 Penny in flowered voile, with a saucy, ruffled white apron....
2 An established master of the slow reveal, Ivory serves gossip with a voile overlay.
3 Although Mr. Costa’s work is always embedded in fabric research, for this spring/summer 2011 season he made discreet statements with silk crepe, washed silk and cotton voile.
4 She had just come in, and a big, plumed, grey hat, which matched her pale grey voile gown, lay on the table beside her.
5 "I didn't know you played," I said politely, glad that Sarah had persuaded me to change, and conscious of how very becoming the new mauve voile must be.
6 One of the strangest looks of the prespring and resort shows was at Céline, where the designer Phoebe Philo came up with a cotton voile tunic in miniature blue paisley with matching pants.
7 At least at Elie Saab, the designer’s “warrior queens” had space to stride under their voluminous skirts of velvet and voile.
8 Plays on fabric, from translucent voile through to the thick Velcro tabs that closed the fencing gear, added yet another dimension.
9 She selected one of her prettiest dresses—a pale pink voile—and also wore her pink silk sweater which matched it so perfectly.
10 "Or that voile with the heliotrope flowers?" supplemented Nan.
11 She wore a little lingerie frock of white voile, tucked and inset with lace and girdled with pink satin.
12 If the worst came to the worst, I was sure of a new voile dress which Miss Green was making, and the old coat and skirt would do very well for the mornings.
13 We were in mourning for an aunt, so she wore a dress of fine black voile, and a black hat with long feathers.
14 Jean had not dressed since lunch, yet her costume chanced to be a pretty brown skirt and a cream voile blouse, open at the throat and rather unusually becoming.
15 Gratitude welled up in her impressionable young heart; overflowed her lips in song, as she dressed herself in the little white voile, splashed with tiny blue and yellow wild flowers.
16 She was thin without the taut look of wiry people, and her printed voile dresses and flowered hats were as right for her as denim overalls for a farmer.
17 Many designers, both European and American, have combined khaki and other fabrics — such as gingham or voile — for some of the best spring looks.
18 Elegant toile prints, meanwhile, were crafted in cotton voile.
19 Under the two dresses were ribbons of different shades and hues, some strong, coarse stockings, some square-toed shoes, and finally, below everything else, an evening-dress made of voile, and deep blue in tone.
20 The trio came together in voile and georgette shirts that brought a summer freshness to the collection.