Paisley is a pattern of curved teardrop shapes. A paisley shirt, paisley print, a paisley scarf.
The design came from Persia and India, where the shape is a boteh, and Britain met it on Kashmir shawls. Scottish mills copied it so successfully that the town of Paisley gave the pattern its English name. It came back into fashion in the 1960s.
1nounpaisleyA pattern of curved teardrop shapes.
“He wore a silk tie with a red and gold paisley pattern.”
paisley is a pattern.
Named after Paisley in Renfrewshire, where shawls in the pattern were woven in the nineteenth century.
From Paisley, Renfrewshire, in Scotland, where shawls of this kind were woven in the 1800s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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