a fine, filmy, lightly crinkled gauze fabric used in strips for making ruching or for finishing garments.
Origin: 1850–55; < F (crêpe) lisse smooth (crepe), deriv. of lisser to smooth, polish, OF lischier, licier < ML lixāre to leach, deriv. of LL lixa lye; cf. lixivium
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