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ray⋅on

  [rey-on]
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–noun
1. a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
2. fabric made of this filament.
–adjective
3. made of rayon.
Origin:
1920–25; appar. based on ray 1
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ray·on   (rā'ŏn)   
n.  

  1. Any of several synthetic textile fibers produced by forcing a cellulose solution through fine spinnerets and solidifying the resulting filaments.

  2. A fabric so woven or knit.


[Perhaps from French rayon, ray of light (from its sheen), from rai, from Old French; see ray1.]
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Word Origin & History

rayon 
1924, chosen by National Retail Dry Goods Association of America, probably from Fr. rayon "beam of light, ray," from rai (see ray (1)), which was also used in M.E. as a name for a type of cloth. So called because it is shiny. A more marketable alternative than the original patented name, artificial silk (1884), or the intervening attempt, Glos, which was "killed by ridicule" ("Draper's Record," June 14, 1924)
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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