doupioni

Variant of douppioni

or doupioni

noun

a thick, silk yarn of irregular ply used chiefly for suit fabrics

Origin: It doppioni, pl. of doppione, a double cocoon < doppio, double < L duplus, double: sp. infl. by Fr doupion < It

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