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- noun Plural form of
filature .
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Examples
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Through the treetops and branches L-onie could see watermills, the flat roofs of the distilleries and the textile workshops with their filatures m-caniques.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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The standard and dried cocoons form the raw material of the reeling mills, or filatures, as they are called on the Continent.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various
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Waste silks include the pierced cocoons, that is, those from which the moth has come out by making the hole and breaking the fibers in one end of the cocoon; the waste made in the filatures in producing raw or reeled silk, chiefly the outside fiber of the cocoon and the inside next the chrysalis; and also the waste made in manufacture.
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Tokyo Chamber of Commerce to take the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce representatives to inspect the silk filatures, that a delightful luncheon, or as it is called there, "Tiffin," was awaiting us under the trees.
The Log of the Empire State Geneve L. A. Shaffer
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In fact, I do not see in what way the reeling of silk in the United States, by the ordinary method, could be made to bear a much higher charge for labor than that borne by European filatures, which barely pay with labor at one franc per diem of thirteen hours.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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= The cocoons are next sent to the reelers or filatures.
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Europe they are taught by degrees in the filatures, working first at the easier stages of the operations, and afterward being helped forward under the eyes and guidance of experienced operatives.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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Cotton mills, silk filatures, flour and rice mills employing western machinery, modern mining plants and other evidences of how China is coming out of her shell, cause one to rejoice in improved conditions.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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That nation was enterprising enough to cultivate silk and foster its reeling; and when America sent the Japs machinery they set it up and soon had tremendous filatures run by their own people.
The Story of Silk Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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To this end he has opened cotton-mills, silk-filatures, glass-works and iron-works, all on an extensive scale, with foreign machinery and foreign experts.
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