souple

[ suhp-uhl ]

noun

1. silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of souple¹

1885–90; short for French soie souple supple silk

Example Sentences

He remembers Charles Munch, a jury member when he won the Besancon conducting competition in France 1959, inviting him to Tanglewood and praising his “La Mer” as “souple.”

From Washington Post

To impart both movement and structured texture, he relied on a combination of Leonor Greyl products: Mousse au Lotus Volumatrice, Voluforme and Laque Souple.

From Forbes

Souple, sōōp′l, adj. a provincial form of supple—denoting raw silk deprived of its silk-glue.

From Project Gutenberg

On remarque chez lui une imagination souple et vive, une constante aspiration � la force, � la noblesse, � la majest�.

From Project Gutenberg

George Sand's country lies a little to the southward of Touraine, and Berry, too, as the authoress herself has said, has a climate "souple et chaud, avec pluie abondant et courte."

From Project Gutenberg