Like batiste, voile is a fine sheer fabric usually used for making dresses and curtains. From Wordnik.com. ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference
Wands made with lavender tied in voile and ribbon, were stored along with the linens, to keep bugs away and to add a fresh scent. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
Realistically, it is black voile and a handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
I dunno, I quite like the idea of you in voile dress. From Wordnik.com. [Perfume Review: Miller Harris Tangerine Vert, Fique Amere and Fleur du Matin] Reference
So laicite permits Christmas wishes but not la voile?. From Wordnik.com. [papa noël] Reference
“Ah! jeton une voile sur les erreurs de sa jeunesse!”. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
A modest voile blouse with an edging of lace at the neck. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
FIN FIN's Olivia Dress, made of milk voile, priced at €569. From Wordnik.com. [Is This Style's Sustainable Frontier?] Reference
"Or that voile with the heliotrope flowers?" supplemented Nan. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
Penny in flowered voile, with a saucy, ruffled white apron. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
Rose giggled and said, “My blue voile with the lace insets.”. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
She had put on a dress of green voile for this special occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
Something very ocean-y and summery, in voile or china silk, not too heavy. From Wordnik.com. [September 2007] Reference
En l'an 2000, toujours à la voile, elle a visité la Croatie pendant un mois. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
She was wearing her peach voile wrapper, but now she wore no nightshift underneath. From Wordnik.com. [Sexy Beast IV]
My ruffled gown worn over wire hoops was of some flimsy stuff that felt like voile. From Wordnik.com. [Flowers In The Attic]
The high-waisted Empire gown of soft green voile made her appear taller than usual. From Wordnik.com. [Ralestone Luck] Reference
Persis searched in her piece-bag and produced an infinitesimal scrap of green voile. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
This was softer and had more flow and drape like a voile or a batiste or even a lawn. From Wordnik.com. [Choosing the dress and materials] Reference
I've overlayed this with gold voile and tomorrow will machine all over to hold together. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
It made me imagine a walk in a cool summer garden, voile dress whispering in the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
Le voile intégral est un réflexe identitaire, très minoritaire des musulmans de France. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » In France, Sudan, Burqas and Trousers Cause Controversy] Reference
If it were me, I would do it in red, maybe silk ish or perhaps a sweet little lined voile?. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering My Thoughts - A Dress A Day] Reference
She wears a dress of black voile, like the lady who weeps at the trial in the police-court. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
This is a floral voile dress I'm pretty sure I made in the summer of 1996 or possibly 1997. From Wordnik.com. [October 2007] Reference
She'd put on her best dress, a filmy voile with little blue flowers and buttons up the front. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Les cotres furtifs (un cotre est un bateau à voile) ont commencé à émettre le 20 octobre 1998. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
One was a young lady dressed modestly in a somewhat out-of-date evening frock of pale-yellow voile. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Pharaohs]
Don't miss today's story about how the bride almost missed her wedding. voile (vwal) noun, feminine. From Wordnik.com. [un voile - French Word-A-Day] Reference
She had swathed me in a light voile chador, to protect my make-up she said; in truth, to conceal me from the eyes of the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Saying no more, Lydia turned her back and floated into her bedchamber, her diaphanous peach voile nightdress and wrapper spread wide. From Wordnik.com. [Sexy Beast IV]
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