toile

Borrowed from French toile. Doublet of tela.

toile (countable and uncountable, plural toiles)

1. plain or simple twilled fabric

• Eliot, Leoti, lie to, teloi

Inherited from Old French toile, earlier teile, from Latin tēla.

• IPA^(key): /twal/

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toile f (plural toiles)

1. fabric, cloth; canvas
2. painting (artwork)
3. (spider's) web
4. Alternative letter-case form of Toile

• toilier

• → Turkish: tuval

• “toile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ilote

Most likely from Anglo-Norman toilier, but possibly from Middle Dutch tuylen.

toile

1. Alternative form of toilen

From Anglo-Norman toile.

toile

1. Alternative form of toyle

From earlier form teile, from Latin tēla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoi̯.lə/

toile oblique singular, f (oblique plural toiles, nominative singular toile, nominative plural toiles)

1. fabric
2. web

• French: toile

toile f

1. genitive singular of toil