No One on the Internet Knows What the Winning National Spelling Bee Word Even Means

The winning word from Thursday's night's Scripps National Spelling Bee ( http://time.com/4800680/scripps-spelling-bee-youngest-speller/ )  is all over social media.

After champion Ananya Vinay ( http://time.com/4802703/scripps-national-spelling-bee-ananya-vinay-winner/ )  breezed through words like "zeaxanthin," "brabancon," "sceloporus" and other softball spelling challenges, she ended with "marocain."

What is it? The internet does not know.

It's a kind of fabric, which puzzled many who took to Twitter to say how impressed they were with her victory because they never even heard of the word.

Specifically, marocain is "a type of dress fabric of ribbed crepe, made of silk or wool or both," according to the Oxford Dictionary.

Vinay will take home more than $40,000 in cash and prizes, and the rest of the world will take home some new vocabulary.

See some of the internet's confusion below.

> What does marocain mean? A 12 year old has shamed me with her intelligence ���� #spellingbee ( https://twitter.com/hashtag/spellingbee?src=hash )  pic.twitter.com/BVvyfl5281 ( https://t.co/BVvyfl5281 )
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> — Lauren Atkins (@blackcatbaby) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/blackcatbaby/status/870497593410727936 )

> What even is marocain? This 12-year-old just won the Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling it correctly… https://t.co/jmzj4PGbnh
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> — Will Wrobel (@willwphoto) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/willwphoto/status/870596417697480705 )

> I still don't know what "marocain" means.
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> — Allan M (@AllanM88) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/AllanM88/status/870598200230543360 )

> Ask her how I can shoehorn marocain into a dinner party conversation before everyone on twitter reads this.
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> — Brad Vantageous (@BradVantageous) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/BradVantageous/status/870507987898585088 )

> What's a 'marocain' anyway? https://t.co/gKxyT0v21P
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> — Barry Carothers (@BarryCarothers) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/BarryCarothers/status/870605765572255746 )

> Did you know this one: MAROCAIN? #spellingbee ( https://twitter.com/hashtag/spellingbee?src=hash )  Way to go Ananya!
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> — Jennifer Elliott (@Sunriseanchor) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/Sunriseanchor/status/870546155343462400 )

> I just sent an email with the word #marocain ( https://twitter.com/hashtag/marocain?src=hash )  in it. Spell check did not recognize that word. #spellingbee ( https://twitter.com/hashtag/spellingbee?src=hash )  #conspiracy ( https://twitter.com/hashtag/conspiracy?src=hash )
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> — Chris Stover (@ChrisStover) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/ChrisStover/status/870510369701191684 )

> I don't even know what marocain is. Good for her.
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> — Matthew C Taylor (@mctaylo) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/mctaylo/status/870509519297691648 )

Luckily some were kind enough to go the extra step and supply the definition

> Definition of 'marocain': a ribbed crepe fabric used in women's clothing #spellingbee ( https://twitter.com/hashtag/spellingbee?src=hash )  WINNER
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> — Peter Sokolowski (@PeterSokolowski) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/PeterSokolowski/status/870481936057323524 )

> Ananya Vinay, 12, of Fresno, wins the National Spelling Bee, correctly spelling the word, "marocain," a silk or rayon dress fabric
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> — Katie Hinman (@khinman) June 2, 2017 ( https://twitter.com/khinman/status/870487441718640640 )