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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cotton twilled fabric in which the warp is drawn up into loops, forming a pile, which is left uncut.
- noun A strong cotton twilled fabric for men's wear. It is a kind of smooth fustian, shorn after being dyed. If shorn before dyeing, it is called
moleskin. E. H. Knight .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
fustian made ofcoarse twilled cotton ,shorn afterdyeing .
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