paisley
(noun) a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Paisley
A town, the administrative centre of Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4863).
A locality in Murray Mallee region, South Australia.
An unincorporated community and village in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
A census-designated place in Lake County, Florida, United States.
A small city in Lake County, Oregon, United States.
An unincorporated community in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A surname.
From Paisley in Scotland, where shawls of this kind were woven in the 1800s.
paisley (countable and uncountable, plural paisleys)
A motif of a swirling droplet.
A soft woollen fabric having this motif.
• boteh
• Persian pickle
• Welsh pear
paisley (not comparable)
Made from this fabric, or marked with this design.
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
