What's the difference between taffeta and taffety?
Taffeta
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Taffety
Example Sentences:
(1) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
(2) These materials were nylon taffeta (N), nylon taffeta-Goretex-nylon tricot laminated fabric (G), and polyvinylchloride-coated plain cotton fabric (V).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A silk taffeta Balenciaga dress from 1955, with wired skirt flounces.
(4) According to a BBC report from the time, she wore a long black taffeta gown and had a meeting with Pope John Paul II that was described as "warm and relaxed".
(5) There was no repeat of her upbeat appeal just over a week earlier, when, dressed in a shimmering red taffeta jacket, she had urged Germans in a televised new year’s address accompanied by Arabic subtitles, to see refugees as an opportunity for the country.
Taffety
Definition:
(n.) A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.