hernani

See also: Hernani and Hernâni

English

Etymology

From the town of Hernani in Spain.

Noun

hernani (countable and uncountable, plural hernanis)

  1. A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.
    • 1837, Joseph Blunt, The Shipmaster's Assistant and Commercial Digest, page 661:
      Hernani, silk and cotton […] Hernani, entirely of silk
    • 1870, Godey's Lady's Book, volumes 80-81, page 493:
      A novelty this season is the wide mesh hernani in all colors; […]
    • 1881, Arthur's Home Magazine, volume 49, page 482:
      I wanted, you understand, to get an entire new waist and a trimmed skirt out of the two old hernani skirts, and discard the old waist altogether; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hernani”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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