organza
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ænzə
Noun
organza (usually uncountable, plural organzas)
- A thin, stiff, sheer fabric that is made from silk or a synthetic yarn, which resembles organdy, and is used in dressmaking.
- 2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 202:
- But Pinky, at night, toward the morning, to become a woman, was that it? How the white legs would glow against the fire-colored chiffon and bright pink organza, Pinky's white white legs.
Italian
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /oɾˈɡanθa/ [oɾˈɣ̞ãn̟.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /oɾˈɡansa/ [oɾˈɣ̞ãn.sa]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -anθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ansa
- Syllabification: or‧gan‧za
Further reading
- “organza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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