Usually means: Tight, crisp, plain-woven fabric.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. percale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. percale: Merriam-Webster
  3. percale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. percale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. percale: Collins English Dictionary
  6. percale: Vocabulary.com
  7. percale: Wordnik
  8. percale: Wiktionary
  9. percale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. percale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. percale: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Percale, percale: Dictionary.com
  13. Percale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Percale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. percale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. percale: Rhymezone
  17. Percale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. percale: FreeDictionary.org
  19. percale: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. percale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. percale: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. percale: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Textile (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (percale)

▸ noun:  (textiles) A fine, closely woven fabric, made from cotton, polyester or a mix of these, and used for sheets and clothing.

Similar:
sheete, bedsheeting, pencil pleat, persienne, linen paper, pellicule, cover, print, papyrus, flat sheet, more...

Opposite:
sateen, flannel, twill, linen, cotton

Adjectives:
white, blue, red, fine, striped, pink, black, dotted, flowered, colored, gray

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Similar:
sheete, bedsheeting, pencil pleat, persienne, linen paper, pellicule, cover, print, papyrus, flat sheet, more...

Opposite:
sateen, flannel, twill, linen, cotton

Adjectives:
white, blue, red, fine, striped, pink, black, dotted, flowered, colored, gray



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