silk shag

noun

A coarse, rough-woven silk, like plush, but with a stiffer nap.

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Meanings

nounsilk shag (countable and uncountable, plural silk shags)

plural silk shags

  1. countableuncountableA coarse, rough-woven silk, like plush, but with a stiffer nap.

    Population 5,430 (more like 40,000 today), Andover is "a bustling agricultural town" with "many malt houses, and a factory for silk shag".

    2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 59
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