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countable and uncountable, plural organdies
A fine, transparent type of muslin, usually stiffened. quotations examples
“I took it to garden-parties after I came out, with my hair curled and an organdie hat on top of the whole thing […] .”
1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 317
Beside them stood a puzzled female dwarf with a hideously rouged face as if ready for the circus; she was clad in white organdie with a marriage veil.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445