xiné

Borrowed from French chiné, past participle of chiner (“to produce fabric in this manner”), from Chine (“China”) as the source of this technique.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʃiˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [t͡ʃiˈne]

xiné m (plural xinés)

1. a patterned textile which has the pattern produced by dyeing the warp threads with the pattern prior to weaving, thereby blurring the image randomly when woven

• “xiné”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “xiné”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “xiné” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “xiné” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.