chenille
- n a soft tufted cord used in embroidery
- n a heavy fabric woven with chenille cord; used in rugs and bedspreads
- In the South manufacturers of chenille bath mats started making full-scale cotton rugs with fast tufting machines in which 730 huge needles did the work of the old-fashioned looms.
- He helped conceive the design, which with its chenille banquettes and straw-flecked walls looks like a cross between a Paris bistro and a Japanese teahouse.
- Douglas limps through the slush of a Pittsburgh winter, dressed in his former wife's pink chenille bathrobe.