Sentence examples for chenille from inspiring English sources
noun
An extremely soft and bunchy fabric often used to make sweaters
The chenille two-stage process was invented in Glasgow about 1830.
Novelty yarns, used to produce special effects, include bouclé, characterized by projecting loops; nub yarn, with enlarged places, or nubs, produced by twisting one end of a yarn around another many times at one point; and chenille, a soft, lofty yarn with pile protruding on all sides.
The tapestry process of printing patterned carpets was evolved in Edinburgh in the 1830s, and in 1839 a chenille Axminster process, which was patented by James Templeton of Glasgow, gave increased colour range to carpet designs.
The two doubles, with modern beds draped in chenille throws, feature boxed-in balconies – a common architectural quirk in Havana.
The number of colours that can be used for Jacquard Wilton and gripper Axminster are limited; spool and chenille Axminster allow unlimited colour range.
Axminster carpets, in which all of the pile yarn is effectively used for design (unlike Wilton and Brussels that waste some "dead" pile yarn by hiding it in the body of the carpet) include spool, gripper, and chenille.
But the old dysfunctions, and your favorite chenille blanket, are just where everyone left them.
I arrived for my job interview in the only decent clothes I had: my "show clothes" — black pants and a lavender chenille sweater from Contempo Casuals.
Other favorites include astrantia; yarrow (especially Paprika, a red-orange); cleome, or spider flower; amaranth, or love-lies-bleeding, whose chenille-like tassels come in wine-red, lime-green and bronze; and nigella, or love-in-a-mist (especially the midnight blue variety), whose spidery seed pods are as magical as its starry flowers.
O.K., sometimes just ornamental, like the white T-shirt with heavy chenille-style embroidery ($495), or the jacket and pants with a monochromatic flower motif, or the pair of metallic dark yellow parachute-esque pants, which seemed suited to a life selling beaded tank tops in Tulum.
High boots that looked like tights, ladylike innocent/fatale, a noir muse swooning and shining through textured pythons, retro-chic built with false sequins/chenille-like fur/ cellophane," buttons and belts that reminded me of Sunday outfits worn by my grandmothers, but with an edge.
