| 单词 | waste silk |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaste silk With defining word, usually indicating silk at some process or stage of manufacture, or some particular kind of silk: see hard silk at hard adj. 1h, raw silk n. at raw adj. and n.1 Compounds 2, reeled silk n. at reeled adj. Compounds, soft silk at soft adj. 11b, spun adj. 1a, thrown adj. 1b; also Jap silk at Jap adj., schappe n., tussore n. 1, etc. waste silk: see waste silk n. at waste n. Compounds 2.extracted from silkn.adj.waste silk waste silk n. the inferior silk from the outside of cocoons and from cocoons out of which the moths have been allowed to escape. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > silk > [noun] > rough or inferior floss1760 waste silk1797 shap1882 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 486/1 Before you begin to wind, you must prepare your cocoons..stripping them of that waste silk that surrounds them, and which served to fasten them to the twigs. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2292/2 Spun-silk, a cheap article produced from short-fibered and waste silk, in contradistinction to the long fibers wound from the cocoon and thrown. 1921 R. Beaumont & W. G. Hill Dress, Blouse, & Costume Cloths 94 The ‘Schappe’ or ‘steeping practice’ consists in placing the supply of waste silk in jacketed pans. < as lemmas |
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