selvage

Questions about selvage

What does selvage mean?

selvage means "border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in selvage?

selvage has 2 syllables: sel-vage. The stress falls on "sel". In IPA it is /ˈsɛlvɪdʒ/.

What is another word for selvage?

Close synonyms include selvedge, selvedge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is selvage a common word?

selvage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.