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Grammar : Noun
Spell : twahl
Phonetic Transcription : twɑl

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Définition of toile

Origin :
  • c.1400, "type of heavy, coarse cloth," from Old French toile "linen cloth, canvas" (see toil (n.2)). As a type of dress material, from 1794.
  • As in linen : noun fabric
Example sentences :
  • He was at this time informed that Bar, the servant of M. de Commeron, the botanist of the toile, was a woman.
  • Extract from : « Ocean's Story; or Triumphs of Thirty Centuries » by Edward Rowland
  • When Bougainville went on board the toile, Bar, bathed in tears, admitted that she was a woman.
  • Extract from : « Ocean's Story; or Triumphs of Thirty Centuries » by Edward Rowland
  • The porter was profusely polite, and the horses started off at a loose trot down the Boulevards and towards the toile.
  • Extract from : « The Devourers » by Annie Vivanti Chartres
  • The two carriages went as far as the toile turnpike by way of the Maillot gate.
  • Extract from : « The Prussian Terror » by Alexandre Dumas
  • The principal industry of the place is the manufacture of sparkling wines, the toile growth being the best for this purpose.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8 » by Various
  • For then they had bene entrapped as Deere in a toile; then not one of them could haue escaped.
  • Extract from : « The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First » by John Hayward
  • At Saint-Cast they are said to be dressed (like the corrigans at Carnac, see p. 208) in toile, a kind of heavy linen cloth.
  • Extract from : « The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries » by W. Y. Evans Wentz
  • Conventional scrolls and flowers were used as designs for the toile, the ground and the pattern being made at the same time.
  • Extract from : « Chats on Old Lace and Needlework » by Emily Leigh Lowes
  • More than once lately I have been a welcome visitor at the bright little apartment within a stone's-throw of the toile.
  • Extract from : « Spies of the Kaiser » by William Le Queux

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