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TOILE |
Linen fabric |
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CRINOLINE |
Stiff linen fabric |
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DRABBET |
A coarse linen fabric, or duck. |
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DAMASSE |
A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen. |
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DRILLING |
A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton. |
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CAMBRIC |
A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. |
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TICKLENBURG |
A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the
West Indies. |
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DIAPER |
Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in
diaper pattern. See 2. |
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BRAID |
A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for
binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc. |
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PERCALE |
A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often
printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear. |
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TAPE |
A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven
fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape. |
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SCRIM |
A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in
openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India
scrim. |
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VELVET |
A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads.
Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back. |
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HOLLAND |
A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen
fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or
unbleached hollands. |
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LACE |
A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often
ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an
ornament of dress. |
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DUCK |
A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than
canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds,
and sometimes for men's clothing. |
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SEERSUCKER |
A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of
silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly
craped or puckered su... |
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TICKING |
A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which
ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of
different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken. |
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LAWM |
A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather
open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress
in the Eng... |
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CLOTH |
...f wire, as
in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen,
adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics,... |
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TAPESTRY |
A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen
or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less
pictorial and the stu... |
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FRINGE |
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sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of
leather, or the like. ... |