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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of producing two-colored effects upon union cloth of vegetable and animal fibers in a dye-bath. It may be done by first using an acid color which will dye the wool and not the cotton and later dyeing the cotton with a direct cotton color, or by the process of crossdyeing (which see).

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