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- n. A heavy, three-cord thread of linen with a soft satin-like finish, used for sewing breadths of carpet together.
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“Now she sat in the old Peabody pew darning the forlorn, faded cushion with gray carpet-thread; thread as gray as her own life.”
“Now she sat in the old Peabody pew darning the forlorn, faded cushion with grey carpet-thread: thread as grey as her own life.”
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