Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a colorful swirled pattern of abstract curved shapes. Used especially of fabric.
- noun A paisley pattern or fabric.
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- noun
motif ofswirling droplet - noun a soft
woolen fabric having this motif - adjective made from this fabric, or marked with this design
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As the offspring of parents who were highly crunchyin the 1960s and 1970s, Aaron could be described as a paisley diaper baby.
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As for which scarf to choose: ideally, I prefer vintage silk, and am currently much taken with an unlabelled paisley print from the 1950s; softened with age, but still unfaded.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Was hoping that the two "paisley" cakes were actually a yin/yang pair.
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They have the YLI organic cotton thread, as well as two fabric medleys: the lightweight Oasis Canvas Medley in solid colors and the Woodblock Vegetable Dye Medley, which is kind of paisley and stripey and floral.
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I want to cover the band with either little studs, in a kind of paisley pattern with a transfer?
December 2008 2008
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And then there's the ermine, gold kind of paisley coat at the end, the rich fur and the gloves and the gun scene.
Samuel L. Jackson Takes Us Through His ‘Spirit’ Wardrobe 2008
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I want to cover the band with either little studs, in a kind of paisley pattern with a transfer?
Ten Things I'm Going to Make Just As Soon As I Get Around To It - A Dress A Day 2008
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Here he is glamming it up on the GLAAD "paisley" carpet.
mjsbigblog mj 2010
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The new autumn collections are full of dresses with sleeves of every shape and size - three-quarter length, cuffed, long and tight, full and belled, raglan and puffed, many in a print pattern such as paisley print, on a long-sleeved dress.
Fruity Spirit 2010
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Though it did mean that I did a couple of placemats - I made up 8 or so of these from scrap pairs which I've been using as enders and leaders - I thought I'd practice some of the 72 ways not to stipple or meander from the new Dijanne Cevaal book I got - the placemat on left is actually from the other day and has a leaf type meander, the one on the right has a "paisley" design - wavy lines, with straight lines and dots down the middle.
Placemats & stuff katelnorth 2008
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