Gore (fabrics)

Four trapezoidal gores make a skirt

A gore refers to a triangular piece of cloth. Etymologically it is derived from geirr, meaning spear. In the course of time the word came to be used for a piece of cloth used in making clothes.[1] In dressmaking and hatmaking, it refers to triangular or rhomboid pieces of fabric which are combined to create a fuller three dimensional effect.

References

  1. ↑ Skeat, Walter William (1901). A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 218.
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