twill

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Rei used her illusion by inserting contradictory panels of fabric into these cloths of convention: a leopard spot next to twill, a rough check in a Prince of Wales jacket, an oblique camo with bird's-eye, or a print of a Napoleonic tailcoat hard up against gray pinstripe.

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  1. noun A fabric with diagonal parallel ribs.
  2. noun The weave used to produce such a fabric.
  3. transitive verb To weave (cloth) so as to produce a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs.

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  1. Middle English twile, from Old English twilīc, woven of double thread; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. (Scots) tweel, twell, tweil, tweal; from Low German twillen, make double, also fork into branches, as a tree; cf. Low German twill, twille, twehl, a forked branch, any forked thing; Dutch tweeling = German zwilling = Swedish Danish tvilling, twin; Swedish dial. tvilla, produce twins (said of sheep); Old High German zwilīh, zwilīhh, Middle High German zwilich, zwilch, German zwillich, twill (fashioned after L. bilix, having two threads); with formative -l, from twi-, two: see twi-, two, and cf. twin.
  2. from twill, v.
  3. A variant of quill; cf. twilt for quilt.
  4. from twill, n.
 

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