toile

Borrowed from French toile.

toile (countable and uncountable, plural toiles)

1. plain or simple twilled fabric

• Eliot, Leoti, lie to, teloi

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

• toile de fond

• toilier

• German: Toilette

• “toile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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): /ˈtoj.lə/

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

1. fabric
2. web

• French: toile

toilean

1. plural of toil