textilenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtek.staɪl/us/ˈtek.staɪl/a cloth made by hand or machine:
the textile industry
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- She makes a big profit from selling waste material to textile companies.
- The textile industry still relies to some extent on sweated labour.
- His pictures use textiles and found objects.
- We only use the finest textiles for our upholstery.
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Textiles: general words
- baize
- bias
- bolt
- brocade
- cloth
- cutpiece
- denier 1
- drapery
- filament
- gauze
- lint
- nap
- padding
- pile
- strand
- swatch
- the weft
- upholstery
- wadding
- warp
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