valencia

See also: Valencia, valencià, valência, València, and Valência

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from Valence in France.

Noun

valencia (countable and uncountable, plural valencias)

  1. A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “valencia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin valentia, from Latin valēns.

Pronunciation

Noun

valencia f (plural valencias)

  1. valency, valence

Further reading

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