chenille

How does knowing damask, jacquard, and chenille help with determining if curtains block light and a couch is comfortable when I sit in it?

French seems to be La Chenille qui fait des trous: The Caterpillar That Makes Holes.

I knew most of the fabric ones (ruche, tulle, chenille, etc) but that's my wife's hobby.

Jaquard, chambray, chenille, sateen, and damask are all words that apply to fabrics in some fashion.

Are you sure you aren't confusing chenille for Chanel?

I recognized chenille (but couldn't remember what it meant, outside of knowing it was textile-related), but I'd never heard of damask or jacquard before.

But no, I don't know what damask and Chenille are.

Even still, Chenille and Auk are in a consensual sexual relationship, the fact that he has a sexualized nickname for her doesn't seem like a problem to me from a literary perspective.

But when my husband and I finally had money for our first real post-futon couch, the one we ended up with happened to be upholstered in chenille, and I knew that, in the same way I knew it was a dark red color.

"Chenille stem" is the craft-store word for "pipe cleaner." You can find sateen sheets at Walmart and Target.

Not just sometime after but directly after the writing of New Sun Wolfe flings himself into abandon with such relentlessly hyper-sexualized and objectified characters as Chenille, nicknamed "Jugs" by her lover Awk, who flings off her clothes once taken possession of.

None of those characters could be accurately described as "mere devices to be ridden or otherwise used" > hyper-sexualized and objectified characters as Chenille, nicknamed "Jugs" by her lover Awk Awk is a poor, uneducated, petty criminal and thug; he is a somewhat sympathetic character, but clearly meant to be deeply flawed and his ultimate fate (the one revealed in Short Sun) is quite horrifying.

Chenille seems to be a fabric used in yarns.

So very many of them: Chenille, the fire nymphs, just about every one Severian sleeps with save for dear Thecla, Chenille-as-Scylla, the prostitutes of Fifth Head, Jahi, Jolenta, Hyacinth, Jesus there must be a legion more I can't recall just now...