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Wiktionary
- n. Raw silk, having the appearance of cotton wool, once used as dental floss
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also
floxed silk .
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“Sulla had therefore got himself up as Medusa the Gorgon, complete with a wig of genuine living snakelets that had the whole room screaming in terror every time he lowered his head and threatened to charge, and a flowing mass of draperies in Coan floss silk that showed the guests his biggest snake all too clearly.”
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