Toile

Toile

Toile is a word that entered the English language around the 16th centuryOxford English Dictionary. Toile, earliest citation from 1561. Also spelled toyl / toyle.] from a French word meaning "cloth" or "web" — particularly cloth or canvas for painting on. The word toile in modern English has multiple meanings.

Test garment

A toile is a version of a garment made by a fashion designer or dressmaker to test a pattern. They are usually made in cheap material, as multiple toiles may be made in the process of perfecting a design. Toiles may be called "muslins" in the United States.

Toile de Jouy

Toile de Jouy, sometimes abbreviated to simply "toile", is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a usually white or off-white background on which a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as (for example) a couple having a picnic by a lake. Toiles also often consists of an arrangement of flowers. The pattern portion consists of a single colour, most often black, dark red, or blue. Greens, browns and magenta toile patterns are less common but not unheard of. Toile is most associated with fabrics (curtains and upholstery in particular), though toile wallpaper is also popular.

Toile de Jouy originated in France in the late 1700s. In the French language, the phrase literally means "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas", a town of north-central France. Although it has been continuously produced since then, it experienced a marked upsurge in popularity around the year 2000. Previously only a decorating design, designers have been recently experimenting with toile-patterned apparel as well.

Etymology

Middle English toile, from French "toile" ("cloth"), from Old French "teile", from Latin "tela", ("web"), from Proto-Indo-European "*(s)teg" ("to cover") (see list of Proto-Indo-European roots).

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  • toile — [ twal ] n. f. • XIIe; teile 1149; lat. tela, de texere « tisser » I ♦ A ♦ (Sens génér.) 1 ♦ Tissu de l armure la plus simple (armure unie), fait de fils de lin, de coton, de chanvre, etc. Tisser la toile, une toile. Chanson de toile. Toiles de… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • toilé — toile [ twal ] n. f. • XIIe; teile 1149; lat. tela, de texere « tisser » I ♦ A ♦ (Sens génér.) 1 ♦ Tissu de l armure la plus simple (armure unie), fait de fils de lin, de coton, de chanvre, etc. Tisser la toile, une toile. Chanson de toile.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • toile — TOILE. sub. f. Tissu de fils de lin, ou de chanvre. Toile fine, deliée. toile claire. grosse toile. toile ronde. toile de mesnage. toile bien unie. toile lasche, serrée. toile forte. toile cruë, escruë, qui n a point encore esté à la lessive.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • toile — Toile, Tela, C est toute toile en general, car on dit toile de lin, de chanvre, de couton, d escorce d arbres qui vient des pays barbares, et toile de Cambray, de Holande, et toile batiste: on dit aussi toile d or et toile d argent, mais c est d… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Toile — [to̯a:l] der; s, s <aus gleichbed. fr. toile, dies aus lat. tela »Tuch«> feinfädiges, zart gemustertes [Kunst]seidengewebe in Leinwandbindung (Webart); Toile à jour [twala ʒu:r]: Waschkunstseide mit durchsichtigen Streifen; Toile de soie… …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • Toile — [to̭a:l], der; s, s [frz. toile < lat. tela = Tuch]: feinfädiges [Kunst]seidengewebe in Leinwandbindung (Blusen u. Wäschestoff) …   Universal-Lexikon

  • toile — (n.) c.1400, type of heavy, coarse cloth, from O.Fr. toile linen cloth, canvas (see TOIL (Cf. toil) (n.2)). As a type of dress material, from 1794 …   Etymology dictionary

  • Toile — (fr., spr. Toal), 1) Flachsleinwand (T. de lin), od. Hanfleinwand (T. de chanvre), od. auch Wergleinwand (T. d étoupe); T. blancard, Blancards, T. à voiles, Segeltuch; 2) leinwandartige Gewebe von Baumwolle od. Seide; meist genannt nach dem Orte …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Toile — (toal), frz., Leinezeug oder Leinezeug ähnliches Gewebe …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Toile — 〈[toa:l] m.; Gen.: s, Pl.: s; Textilw.〉 weicher, seidener Stoff für Wäsche, Kleider u. Blusen in Leinwandbindung [Etym.: frz., »Leinwand, Tuch«] …   Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch

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