different between lisle vs lisne

English

Etymology

Named after Lisle, France, where it was first produced.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /la?l/

Noun

lisle (countable and uncountable, plural lisles)

1. A type of strong cotton thread, or a cloth woven from such thread.
   • 1976, Angela Carter, ‘The Mother Lode’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 11:

     She herself dressed in dark dresses of heavy rayon crêpe, with grey Lisle stockings bound under the knee with two loops of knotted elastic.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 41:

     He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.

Anagrams

• Ellis, Liles

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse litli.

Adjective

lisle (singular and plural lisle)

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of liten
2. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by litle

References

• “lisle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From dialectal lissen, lisne (“a cleft in a rock”).

Noun

lisne (plural lisnes)

1. (obsolete) A cavity or hollow.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     And I remember in my youth, in the Lisne of a Rock at King?cote in Gloce{{long s{{tershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles actually distinct one from another

Anagrams

• LINEs, Niles, elsin, lenis, liens, lines