twilling

plural twillings

1. countableuncountableTwilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.

   It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining, the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling, which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 563