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filature|ˈfɪlətjʊə(r)|
[a. F. filature (as if ad. L. *fīlātūra; cf. It. filatura), f. late L. fīlāre to spin, f. fīlum thread.]
1. The action of forming or spinning into threads; the reeling of silk from cocoons.
1783Burke Rep. Affairs India Wks. 1842 II. 27 Buying up the cocoons for the Italian filature. 1860Ure Dict. Arts II. 277 Floss-silk is the name given to the portions of ravelled silk broken off in the filature of the cocoons.
b. attrib. in filature-silk = floss-silk.
1804Colebrooke Husb. Bengal (1806) 153 The prime-cost of fileture-silk [sic].
2. An establishment for reeling silk.
1759Chron. in Ann. Reg. 165/1 The public filature at Savannah. 1772Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 IV. 477 note, Fifty-four pounds [of silk] had been reeled at the filature of private persons. 1851L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illust. Catal. 11**/1 The process of Reeling the Silk from the Cocoons is carried on..in establishments called filatures. 1880I. L. Bird Japan I. 270 In the rear of the filature is a large fireproof building. |