Fact 87: Where does the word tissue come from?

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Fact 87: Where does the word tissue come from?

The word tissue interestingly comes from the Old French word tissu, meaning, basically a ribbon, or belt of woven material but now means white thin sheet of soft paper used to blow ones nose or wrap something to protect it or decorat something for arts and craft if the paper is bright or colourful. It is not as I thought an onomatopoeia (a word that comes from a sound associated with the word in question, like bang is a bang and crash is a crash). Tissue is not called a tissue because it sounds like a sneeze!



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