marceline

See also: Marceline

English

Etymology

From French marceline, from Latin marcidus (“withered”), from marcere (“to wither, shrivel”).

Noun

marceline (countable and uncountable, plural marcelines)

1. (archaic) A thin silk fabric used for linings etc. in ladies' dresses.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “marceline”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cream line, creamline, limerance