100 Day Challenge: Words #7

Episode seven (for days 31 to 35) of my 100 day challenge to find words I don’t know. I’m scraping words from https://randomword.com/ and each day picking one that I find interesting and which is also in the OED.

Day Date Word Meaning
31 Sunday 1 December pourpointerie ** Quilted material with studs at the seams, worn in the Middle Ages as armour
32 Monday 2 December pongee A soft, usually unbleached kind of Chinese silk fabric, woven from uneven threads of raw silk
33 Tuesday 3 December scoliograptic Marked by oblique lines
34 Wednesday 4 December zenana The system of segregating women away from men in harems
35 Thursday 5 December selliform Saddle-shaped

** My favourite of the words presented.

Next episode in a few days!