英语词汇“floss silk”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	floss silk
释义	floss silk Also flox-, flosh-silk. [f. floss², after F. soie floche.] a. The rough silk broken off in the winding of the cocoons. b. This rough silk carded like cotton or wool and used chiefly in the manufacture of common silk fabrics. c. Untwisted filaments of silk used in embroidery and crewel-work. 1759Pullein in Phil. Trans. LI. 55 It was covered with some floss-silk.1820Scott Ivanhoe xiii, The flox-silk with which the billet was surrounded.a1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 53 The truckle bed of Valour and Freedom is not wadded with flosh-silk.1863Ouida Held in Bondage (1870) 89 Will you be kind enough to hold this skein of floss silk for me?1884J. Payne Tales fr. Arabic I. 17 He found himself upon a couch, stuffed all with floss-silk. attrib.1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole v. (1879) 50 A bright blue stock, worked with floss silk sunflowers.
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