taffeta weave

1. 1.

   a basic style of weave in which the weft and warp threads intertwine alternately to produce a checkerboard effect

   Synonymsplain weave

   Broaderweave

Questions about taffeta weave

What does taffeta weave mean?

taffeta weave means "a basic style of weave in which the weft and warp threads intertwine alternately to produce a checkerboard effect".

What is another word for taffeta weave?

Close synonyms include plain weave. 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 taffeta weave a common word?

taffeta weave 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.