Meaning of tussore | Babel Free

Definitions

Foulard fabriqué dans l'Inde avec une soie particulière provenant du ver à soie sauvage.

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Examples

“now and then the fantastic shadows of birds of flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect […]”

“The next day, when Hsi-men Ch’ing returned from the yamen, he had the chests opened up and took out a bolt of block printed tussore fabric from the Imperial Silk Manufactory in the south.”

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