tricotine

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noun

A double twill fabric of tightly twisted yarns.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nountricotine (countable and uncountable, plural tricotines)

plural tricotines

  1. countableuncountableA double twill fabric of tightly twisted yarns.

    The whole strengthening movement goes back to the run on 50s two-ply yarn to go into tricotines.

    1921, Fibre & Fabric
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    I was often the one to design original corsages for the campus debs...tiny bouquets to enhance the skirt of an antebellum gown or 5-braided silver or gold cord bracelets and necklaces with sweetheart roses embellished with French tricotine.

    2006, Marjorie E de Cuba, Tentacles of Time: A Spiritual Odyssey, →ISBN, page 67

    She wrote to Florence for blue tricotine, enough for Marie to run up a dress she could wear to the office, and asked her stepmother to send a cutting of the fabric to her

    2015, Georgina Howell, Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, →ISBN
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