Definitions
Strong synthetic fabric or plastic material.
Word origin
Coined by the company DuPont in 1938. According to the company, the name was formed from the random generic syllable nyl- + the common fiber suffix -on (as in rayon and Dacron), said to be ultimately from cotton.
Used in a sentence
“I tore a hole in my nylons while walking home through the woods.”
“1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He put on make-up, nylons, panties, a dress.”
“What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Synthetic thread material”5 letters
02“Synthetic fabric”5 letters
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