toile

Etymology

Borrowed from French toile.

Noun

toile (countable and uncountable, plural toiles)

1. plain or simple twilled fabric

Anagrams

• Eliot, Leoti, lie to, teloi

Etymology

From Old French toile, earlier teile, from Latin tēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twal/

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Noun

toile f (plural toiles)

1. fabric, cloth; canvas
2. painting (artwork)
3. (spider's) web
4. Alternative letter-case form of Toile

Further reading

• “toile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology 1

Most likely from Anglo-Norman toilier, but possibly from Middle Dutch tuylen.

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman toile.

Etymology

From earlier form teile, from Latin tēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoj.lə/

Noun

toile f (oblique plural toiles, nominative singular toile, nominative plural toiles)

1. fabric
2. web

Noun

toilean

1. plural of toil