Noun: chiffon
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | chiffon |
| Plural m | chiffons |
Sample Sentences
-
parler chiffons, causer chiffons (to chew the rag)
-
poupée de chiffon (rag doll)
Nouns inflected like chiffon
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From chiffe + -on.
2. Chiffe is from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”) from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”) from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to chip, shave, splinter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). More at English chip. See: Old English Nouns '
*ċippian', English Nouns '
chip'.
Verbs referencing "chiffon"
English Nouns
chiffon, Finnish Nouns
sifonki, Polish Nouns
szyfon, Romanian Nouns
șifon, Catalan Nouns
xifó.
Translations