A light, twilled woollen fabric resembling serge, used for aprons, bedding, curtains, etc., and (from the 17th cent.) commonly green in colour.

Used attributively or adj. in the following. a say or fine serge made at Lincoln.

= filoselle, n. (chiefly in sense 2).

= filoselle, n.

A fabric woven from a mixture of silk and wool; a piece of such fabric. Cf. paragon, n. 5, peropus, n. rare after 17th cent. Now historical.

plural (in form piramides). A type of textile fabric (see quot. 1610). Obsolete.

A stuff half silk and half worsted.

See quot. 1714.

A kind of fabric: see quot. 1719.

Apparently: some type of fabric of silk, or silk and worsted.

A watered fabric of silk and wool resembling poplin: chiefly associated with Ireland.

A woollen or silk fabric, or a mixture of the two, with a twilled or ribbed surface.

= challis, n.

A fine silk and worsted fabric, very pliable and without gloss, used for ladies' dresses, ‘introduced at Norwich about 1832, where it speedily became…

An open silk or silk and wool textile used for dresses.

A light thin material of silk, or silk and wool, used for women's dresses.

A double or compound textured fabric woven so as to have a quilted appearance, often of silk, wool, or a mixture of these.

(see quot. 1882).

A heavy ribbed fabric made from silk and either cotton or wool. Frequently attributive.

A fine dress fabric of silk and wool. Also attributive.

The trade name of a soft material of worsted and silk with a fine downy nap, used for women's coats and dresses. Also attributive.