Meaning of Worsted | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Yarn made from long strands of wool.
   countable, uncountable
2. The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“An old ſet-ſtitch’d chair, valanced and fringed around with party-colour’d worſted bobs, ſtood at the bed’s head, oppoſite to the ſide where my father’s head reclined.”

“[T]he kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come⟳ undone again; […]”

“"Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own⟳ wishes, and seldom imagine⟳ how much those wishes cost⟳ others," said Mrs Garth. She did not mean⟳ to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted, knitting her brow at it with a grand air.”

“Finally he took a ball of worsted and tied strings of it across the back passage and across the opposite door.”

“[T]he undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark, forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated “the kitchen,” wherein sat a slatternly girl in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair⟳.”

“He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck—Why? Where did he get⟳ it? Was it a badge—an ornament—a charm—a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it?”

“When Flemish weavers settled in East Anglia during the Middle Ages they introduced a technique to the wool trade⟳ which produced a cloth of fine fibres and closely twisted yarn. Worstead became the centre for the manufacture⟳ of this new material, which came to be known as worsted – after the village.”

“The cognitive dissonance is plain to see⟳ on the faces of recruiters who pretend⟳ clothing is no big deal⟳, but are clearly disappointed if you show⟳ up to a job interview in a dark worsted business suit⟳.”

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