Noun: rayon
| Singular | rayon |
| Plural | rayons |
Sample Sentences
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Nor brick, nor marble was the wall in view,
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But ſhining Chriſtall, which from top to baſe
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Out of her womb a thouſand rayons threw, […] [1591, Joachim du Bellay, “The Visions of Bellay”, in Ed[mund] Sp[enser], transl., Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, part 2, signature Y3, recto:]
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The rayons of the Sunne we see, Diminish in their strength. [a. 1609, Alex. Hume, Day Estivall, page 177:]
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Here stood A cave,…unreached by rayons of the Sun. [1859, Singleton, Virgil, volume II, page 244:]
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Within a rayon of a certain number of miles. [1878, Lady Herbert, transl., Hübner’s Ramble, part iii, chapter i, page 459:]
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I found myself within his rayon at Newcastle, which is one of his bases of supply. [1879 May 26th, Daily News, page 5/6:]
Nouns inflected like rayon
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
Name chosen by the National Retail Dry Goods Association of America, probably from French rayon (“a beam of light, ray”) and so called because it is shiny; however, the Oxford English Dictionary states that it is apparently a blend of ray + cotton. See: French Nouns '
rayon'.