terry
Webster Dictionary
a kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings
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foulard
Webster Dictionary
a thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere
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velvet
Webster Dictionary
a silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back
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sagathy
Webster Dictionary
a mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric
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malvaceous
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it
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gauze
Webster Dictionary
a very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze
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faille
(faille)
Princeton's WordNet
a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton
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ceiba
(ˈseɪ bə or, for)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a silk-cotton tree,
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ceiba
(ˈseɪ bə or, for)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
silk cotton; kapok.
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shantung
(shantung)
Princeton's WordNet
a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton imitation)
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damask
(damask)
Princeton's WordNet
a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it
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floss
(ɔs, flɒs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
embroidery thread of silk or fine cotton.
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red silk cotton
(red silk cotton)
Princeton's WordNet
a plant fiber from the red silk-cotton tree of eastern India; inferior to kapok
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lastex
(Lastex)
Princeton's WordNet
yarn that has an elastic core wound around with cotton or silk or nylon or rayon threads
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bombax ceiba
(red silk-cotton tree, simal, Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica)
Princeton's WordNet
East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok
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bombax malabarica
(red silk-cotton tree, simal, Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica)
Princeton's WordNet
East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok
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simal
(red silk-cotton tree, simal, Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica)
Princeton's WordNet
East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok
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red silk-cotton tree
(red silk-cotton tree, simal, Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica)
Princeton's WordNet
East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok
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byssus
(ˈbɪs aɪ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an ancient cloth, thought to be of linen, cotton, or silk.
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floss
(ɔs, flɒs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the cottony fiber yielded by the silk-cotton tree.
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thread
(thread, yarn)
Princeton's WordNet
a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
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caftan
(caftan, kaftan)
Princeton's WordNet
a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant
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yarn
(thread, yarn)
Princeton's WordNet
a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
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kaftan
(caftan, kaftan)
Princeton's WordNet
a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant
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kapok
(ˈkeɪ pɒk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the silky down that invests the seeds of a tropical silk-cotton tree
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rep
(ɛp)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a horizontally ribbed fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
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madras
(ˈmæd rəs, məˈdræs, -ˈdrɑs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a large brightly colored silk or cotton kerchief often used for turbans.
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ferret
(ˈfɛr ɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a narrow tape or ribbon, as of silk or cotton, used for trimming, etc. Also called ferret&syl;ing.
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raw
Webster Dictionary
not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton
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bengaline
(ˈbɛŋ gəˌlin, ˌbɛŋ gəˈlin)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a lustrous fabric with heavy crosswise cords, woven of silk, cotton, worsted, etc.
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