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noun a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
originBorrowed 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, shaving”); see chip.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0