0 a type of cotton thread used especially in the past for making stockings, underwear, and gloves:
Thick brown lisle stockings were the only ones available to buy.
a pair of white lisle gloves
Lisle is manufactured using the finest extra-long staple cotton.
Her boots sagged at the ankles like a pair of 1930s lisle stockings.
Up until then wool was being used for outer-wear and cotton was being used for underwear as cotton lisle.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
lisle
