单词 | floss silk |
释义 | floss silkn. (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. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > silk > floss or carded silk filoselle1561 ferret-silk1576 floret-silk1582 floss silk1760 floreting1775 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > silk > waste floss silk1760 burr1798 silk waste1842 strass1858 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > silk > sleave silk > sleaved silk slived silk1548 sleaved silk1587 sleave1605 sliven silk1688 sleft silk1752 floss silk1760 floss1871 1760 S. Pullein in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 55 It was covered with some floss-silk. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xiii. 264 The flox-silk with which the billet was surrounded. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 53/1 The truckle bed of Valour and Freedom is not wadded with flosh-silk. 1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. viii. 169 Will you be kind enough to hold this skein of floss silk for me? 1884 J. Payne tr. Tales from Arabic I. 17 He found himself upon a couch, stuffed all with floss-silk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1760 |
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