Chiffon Definition

Origin of Chiffon

• Borrowing from French chiffon, from Middle French chiffe "cloth, old rag" from Old French chipe "rag", from Middle English chip, chippe "chip, shard, fragment" from Old English ċipp "chip, splinter, beam" from Proto-Germanic *kippaz, *kipaz (“log, beam”). Akin to Old Saxon kip "beam, post", Old High German kipfa "axle-rod, stave". More at chip.

  From Wiktionary

• French rag, scrap, ornamental piece of ribbon or lace from chiffe rag alteration (influenced by Old French chifre zero, thing of little value) of Old French chipe from Middle English chip chip, wood shaving chip¹

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition