chiffon
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a small piece of cloth or papersynonyms: haillon
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a separate part consisting of fabrictypes:mouchoir, tire-jusa square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessoryhaillona small piece of cloth or papervoilea large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vesselserviettea rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wipingvoile auriqueany sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft directionfocthe lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vesselgrand-voilethe lowermost sail on the mainmastvoile carréea four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a masthuniera sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast
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