Used in a Sentence

tulle

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tulle.

Editorial note

- tulle - early 19th century: from Tulle, a town in SW France, where it was first made.

Examples17
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tulle gathered in one view.

noun

A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

noun

A town, the capital of Corrèze department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tulle.

noun

A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

noun

A town, the capital of Corrèze department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

Example sentences

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- tulle - early 19th century: from Tulle, a town in SW France, where it was first made.

2

It means you often need to write different functions that do basically the same thing because they use different record or tulle types as input.

3

There are some unfortunate awkward aspects of how iptables does free tulle mapping that can prove annoying.

4

There might be enough here to build a distributed tulle space out of, like GigaSpaces.

5

In languages like Smalltalk, it's quite natural to have a Color object and not be passing around a tulle of RGB values.

6

There was some assembly and C at the very core, but every point generated was a Python tulle at one point in processing.

7

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

8

Adolf Diekmann said the atrocity was in retaliation for the partisan activity in nearby Tulle and the kidnapping of an SS commander, Helmut Kämpfe.

9

After looking it up, I'm slightly surprised that tulle is so much lower than taffeta given that both are used in gowns and I run into references to tulle in poetry all the time[1].

10

I was about to post something very similar, but was trying to check that type annotations can be applied to tulle components before posting.

11

Are you familiar with any tulle-clad tensor inventors?

12

If you are concerned with the size of the data files, one way to handle that is to have the data as a list of tuples that are mapped via a function from a tulle to the record.

Quote examples

1

Also tulle is like tuile, a "French" [to a British person] biscuit that often takes a cigar shape, like a sleeve.

2

To be sure, I recognized most of the fabric words as words (wouldn't have been sure about "sateen" as opposed to "satin"), but they only one I could have defined was "tulle".

Proper noun examples

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Tulle in particular was hilariously difficult to figure out.

2

Tulle is just orange bags, but not orange.

3

>Tulle in particular was hilariously difficult to figure out.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tulle in a sentence?

- tulle - early 19th century: from Tulle, a town in SW France, where it was first made.

What does tulle mean?

A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for clothing, veils, etc.

What part of speech is tulle?

tulle is commonly used as noun.