LISLE


Meaning of LISLE in English

/luyl/ , n.

1. knit goods, as gloves or hose, made of lisle thread.

2. See lisle thread .

adj.

3. made of lisle thread.

[ 1850-55; named after LISLE, France, where first made ]

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