I'm French and I must say it's not the easiest word to pronounce for an English speaker, but I would say it resembles: "too-al de joo-ee".
Pronounced "twaa-le der zhoo-ee"If you are interested, le Musée de la Toile de Jouy is housed in the Château de l'Eglantine in Jouy-en-Josas (78) (I live quite near it) and their website is in link.
"Zhoo-ee" is the pronunciation of the French word "Jouy."Specifically, the French word is part of the name of a commune (Jouy-en-Josas) in the Yvelines department of north-central France. The commune is famous for its print, which appropriately is called "toile de Jouy." Additionally, the name also may refer to a commune in Yonne department, also in north-central France.
It is pronounced "zhwee-ahn-zhoh-zah" with a soft "zh" sound at the beginning and "zah" rhyming with "spa."
You pronounce "Gare de l'Est" as "gahr duh lehst" in French.
You pronounce it like "pah duh kwah". It's strange, but french doesn't really pronounce half its letters.
Toile de jouy
Toile
Toile de Jouy originated in France in the late 1700s. In the French language, the phrase literally means "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas", a town of north-central France
Pronounced "twaa-le der zhoo-ee"If you are interested, le Musée de la Toile de Jouy is housed in the Château de l'Eglantine in Jouy-en-Josas (78) (I live quite near it) and their website is in link.
A toile is a test garment made by a designer to test a pattern.A toile de jouy is a decorating pattern of a landscape in a single color that is used for clothing, wall paper or upholstery fabric.
"Zhoo-ee" is the pronunciation of the French word "Jouy."Specifically, the French word is part of the name of a commune (Jouy-en-Josas) in the Yvelines department of north-central France. The commune is famous for its print, which appropriately is called "toile de Jouy." Additionally, the name also may refer to a commune in Yonne department, also in north-central France.
Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy died in 1846.
Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy was born in 1744.
I believe tulle fabric is pronounced "tool" and toile fabric is pronounced "twal".
It is pronounced "zhwee-ahn-zhoh-zah" with a soft "zh" sound at the beginning and "zah" rhyming with "spa."
The population of Jouy-Mauvoisin is 528.
The population of Breux-Jouy is 1,243.