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say it: LAHY-uhl
lisle is a noun meaning "a fabric woven with lisle thread". It is pronounced /ˈlaɪəl/ — LAHY-uhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a fabric woven with lisle thread
a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton)
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lisle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.