Masculine
chiffon
Meaning
- (masculine) rag
- (masculine) scrap
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
trapo
Lappen
trapo
straccio
lor
drapFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃi.fɔ̃/
Etymology
In summary
From chiffe + -on. Chiffe is from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”) from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”) from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to chip, shave, splinter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). More at English chip.
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