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# voile

«voile» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thin, light, see-through cloth made of cotton, silk or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (voile, uncountable; voiles for kinds)

### meaning for a pupil

A thin, light, see-through cloth made of cotton, silk or polyester, used for curtains, dresses and blouses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voile/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in clothes, sewing and home shopping. Voile curtains let light into a room but stop people from seeing in easily. The word comes from French, where it means "veil". Phrases: "voile curtains", "cotton voile".

### examples

- We hung white voile curtains in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voile/#x1)
- The summer dress was made of light cotton voile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voile/#x2)
- Sunlight shone softly through the voile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voile/#x3)
- Nan sewed a blouse from blue voile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voile/#x4)
- Voile is so thin you can almost see through it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voile/#x5)
- The shop sells voile by the metre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voile/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: "some voile", "a metre of voile". Pronounced VOYL (rhymes with "boil") in English, or vwahl in the French way. It is related to "veil".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «voile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.