Meanings
- not comparableRaw; not spun or wrought.
sleaved thread or silk
5 more examples
The cure is, with a fine small wiar little stronger then a Verginal wiar, and wrapt close about with a soft sleaved silk, and the point blunt and pliantness of the wiar will easily do;
1695, Gervase Markham, A Way to get Wealth, page 133Under the tip of one of the wings, I discovered the end of a fine filament like sleaved silk.
1846, Hannah Flagg Gould, Gathered Leaves: Or, Miscellaneous Papers, page 287Those whiter lilies which the early morn Seems to have newly woven of sleavèd silk, To which, on banks of wealthy Tagus born, Gold was their cradle, liquid pearl their milk.
1864, Sir Richard Fanshawe, “The Spring, A Sonnet”, in George Gilfillan, editor, Nichol's Library Edition of the British Poets, page 43Why is sleaved Silk soe hard
2001, Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland, Tom Cain, The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmoreland, page 94Richard Hakluyt in his catalogue of the cargo of the Madre de Dios, a typical carrack captured by the English in 1592, lists 'silks, damasks, taffetas, sarcenets, altobassos, that is, counterfeit cloth of gold, unwrought China silks, sleaved silk, white twisted silk, curled cypresse', […]
2016, S. Adshead, China in World History, page 216
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