Noun: paduasoy
| Singular | paduasoy |
| Plural | paduasoys |
Sample Sentences
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[M]y wife herself retained a passion for her crimson paduasoy, because I formerly happened to say it became her. [1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:]
Nouns inflected like paduasoy
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Padua (“a place name in Italy”) + French soie (“silk”). Compare French pou-de-soie, peau de soie. See: French Nouns '
soie', French Nouns '
pou-de-soie'.