taffeta
TAF-uh-tuh · noun
Origin
Taffeta entered Late Middle English from Old French taffetas, which came from Medieval Latin taffata, itself borrowed from Classical Persian تافته (tāfta), the past participle of تافتن (tāftan).
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Related words
Taffeta is directly related to the Persian verb تافتن (tāftan), from which its ancestor word tāfta was formed.
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