Noun: tulle
| Singular | tulle |
| Plural | tulles |
Sample Sentences
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Jane smiled up at him through the tulle. […] He became entangled in the tulle veil. [1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part II, Chapter IV, pages 215, 217:]
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I kept thinking of Marie Osmond — standing there at the altar, so brave in white tull ^([sic]). "Marriage isn't just for life," she said, "it's for eternity." [1985 December 21, Larry Hitt, “Perfect Couple Creation”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 7:]
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‘Before I forget, there is one turquoise tulle fabric I think you would love . . .’ [2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 240:]
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Neer imagined Jane in tulle and leather and sequins and knew the answer. [2022, Janelle Monáe, Danny Lore, “Nevermind”, in The Memory Librarian, Harper Voyager, →ISBN, page 122:]
Nouns inflected like tulle
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 tulle, named after French Tulle (a town), named after Latin Tūtēla (a Roman deity), from Latin tūtēla (whence English tutelary), from Latin tueor (whence tutor, tutorial). See: French Nouns '
tulle', French Nouns '
Tulle', Latin Nouns '
Tūtēla', Latin Nouns '
tūtēla', English Nouns '
tutelary', Latin Nouns '
tueor'.