Moiré pattern
A radiating curved pattern created when two repetitive patterns overlap and interfere with one another. A Moiré pattern is seen, for example, when someone on TV wears a herringbone jacket. Moiré is the French word for "silk", the method of making the fabric that shows the familiar shifting patterns, now known as silk moiré, having been introduced from China to France in 1754.
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