[F. lisse smooth (in crêpe lisse smooth crape).] A kind of silk gauze.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xiii. 113. The snowy lisse crape cap.
1864. Daily Tel., 11 March, 3/4. The Queen wore … a cap of white crape lisse … and a long white crape lisse veil attached to it.
1879. Mrs. Eliot James, Ind. Househ. Managem., 18. Lisse, if you go to a hot station [in India], would be almost useless.
1884. Cassell’s Fam. Mag., Feb., 184/2. Edge it with lace plaiting or lisse frilling.
