floss-silk

A form of floss silk — Raw silk, having the appearance of cotton wool, once used for embroidery and as dental floss.

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nounfloss-silk (countable and uncountable, plural floss-silks)

plural floss-silks

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of floss silk.

    Beside these samplers hung divers fruit-pieces worked in worsted and flower pieces worked in floss-silk; also two or three drawings.

    1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 132
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