moire

See also: Moire, moiré, móire, and möire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moire, itself from English mohair.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mwɑː/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

moire (countable and uncountable, plural moires)

1. Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat.
3. Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given.

Anagrams

• meroi

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English mohair.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwaʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

moire f (plural moires)

1. watered fabric, moire

Descendants

• → Italian: amoerro, amoerre, moerro, muerre (semi-learned), → moire
• → Polish: mora

Further reading

• “moire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French moire, itself a borrowing from English mohair, from Italian mocaiardo, mocaiarro, from Arabic مُخَيَّر (muḵayyar, “choice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmwar/
• Rhymes: -ar

Noun

moire f (uncountable)

1. moire

Related terms

• amoerro
• mohair

Further reading

• moire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• moire in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• -iremo, emiro, morie, omeri, romei