Definitions for "Ratin"
Keywords:  fancy, woollen, participle, rough, nap
a cloth with a rough surface, which has been achieved by finishing and/or the use of fancy yarns.
Originally a thick woollen cloth with a curled nap. Ratiné, the past participle of the French verb ratiner (meaning to cover with a curled nap) has also been applied to a cloth made form a variety of fibres, with a rough surface produced in one of a number of different ways, either by using a fancy yarn in a cloth to which a special finishing technique may or may not be applied or by using ordinary yarns in a cloth to which the special finish is applied.