/mem"fis/ , n.
1. a port in SW Tennessee, on the Mississippi. 646,356.
2. a ruined city in Lower Egypt, on the Nile, S of Cairo: the ancient capital of Egypt.
/mem"fis/ , n.
1. a group of international designers and architects, formed in the 1980s and based in Milan, whose work is characterized by the use of bold colors, geometric shapes, and unconventional, often playful, designs.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to this group or its style of design.
[ the name was allegedly suggested to Ettore Sottsass, one of the group's founders, by the Bob Dylan song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" on the evening of December 11, 1980 ]