If you're wearing the fabric known as "peau de" this, you know that its name is French for "skin of silk"
.... A coarse, open woven fabric which got its name from the plain weave fabric 
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Glossary, Silk Encyclopedia, Silk ... Takes its name from Canton (Guangzhou), a 
Chinese city.