moquette
Appearance
See also: moquetté
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French moquette.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]moquette (countable and uncountable, plural moquettes)
- A kind of fabric with a thick pile used for carpeting or to upholster seating, etc.
- 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
- The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 178:
- A winter of walking about in the rain down snowlit streets; overheated hotel-rooms with the smell of furry moquette […]
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 270:
- You can buy a bag made out of Tube or bus seat moquette, or commission a sofa made in that moquette, so you can be sitting watching television on the same stuff you rode home from work on ... except that historical moquettes are what interest most people.
- An article covered in such material.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
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Noun
[edit]moquette f (plural moquettes)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: moquette
- → Hijazi Arabic: موكيت (mōkēt)
- → Italian: moquette, mochetta
- → Persian: موکت (moket)
- → Romanian: mochetă
- → Spanish: moqueta
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]moquette
- inflection of moquetter:
Further reading
[edit]- “moquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]moquette f (plural moquetti)
References
[edit]- ^ moquette in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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