A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.

An area where a fair (an event for public entertainment) or other public event is held; a showground.

simple past tense and past participle of fail

unsuccessful / Decayed; worn out. / Bankrupt.

(cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.

That does not cause undue damage in the event of failure. / Designed to shut off for safety if an emergency occurs.

A device, mechanism or measure designed to make something fail-safe.

To compensate automatically, in the event of a failure. / To make a device or mechanism fail-safe, or to add a fail-safe device or mechanism to an existing system.

(idiomatic) Actions permissible by the rules. / (idiomatic) A goal or an object that may legitimately be sought. / (idiomatic) An acceptable subject or target for criticism, scrutiny, mockery, or attack.

Alternative form of fail-safe