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单词 floss silk
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floss silkn.

Brit. /ˈflɒs sɪlk/, U.S. /ˈflɔ(s) ˌsɪlk/, /ˈflɑ(s) ˌsɪlk/
Forms: Also flox-, flosh-silk.
Etymology: < floss n.2, after French 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.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > silk > floss or carded silk
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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.
attributive.1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) v. 50 A bright blue stock, worked with floss silk sunflowers.
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