moreen
obsolete
moreen is a noun meaning “A thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, once used in upholstery, for curtains, etc. It is a variety of camlet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-R-E-E-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of moreen is moreens.
What does moreen mean?
noun
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archaicA thick woollen fabric, watered or with embossed figures, once used in upholstery, for curtains, etc. It is a variety of camlet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce moreen?
Moreen has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is moreen?
Moreen appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does moreen come from?
Compare mohair.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).