Noun: chenille
| Singular | chenille |
| Plural | chenilles |
Sample Sentences
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The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed. [1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi:]
Nouns inflected like chenille
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
Borrowed from French chenille. Doublet of canicule. See: French Nouns '
chenille'.