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tussore

NOUN
  1. oriental moth that produces brownish silk

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  • She laughed, standing as cool as you please, very grateful to the eye in tussore coat and skirt, with open-necked blouse, and some kind of rakish hat displaying her thick auburn hair in defiance of the fashion which decreed concealment even of eyebrows with flower-pot head gear. The Mountebank
  • His coat, of tussore, was creased and unfresh, there being no Mary at hand daily to iron it out. Ultima Thule
  • I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world. Languagehat.com: W.G. SEBALD.
  • A number of baggy suits of the lightest tussore material were hanging from the wall. When The World Screamed
  • Photo editing online cyberspace forecast, tussore cymling indigirka, derived acanthisitta cybercafe contentedness, veal seahorse petauristidae, jelq, drumhead, cudbear, all of cicada to nelumbo your jackstraws leastwise. Rational Review
  • Within ten minutes I'd replaced my soiled garments with a fine tussore coat, coolie pants, solar helmet, and umbrella, with a handsome morocco toilet case in my back pocket — and if you think that outlandish, let me tell you that armies were a deal more informally attired in my day. Flashman and the Dragon
  • Within ten minutes I'd replaced my soiled garments with a fine tussore coat, coolie pants, solar helmet, and umbrella, with a handsome morocco toilet case in my back pocket - and if you think that outlandish, let me tell you that armies were a deal more informally attired in my day. Flashman and the Dragon
  • In the drawing-room were four persons, making eight in all for the picnic: Major Small, a fine, full-bearded figure of a man, with a stiff leg, in a tussore suit; Hatty Chessman, always the life and soul of any party, and — “Who do you think, my dear?” — On Forsyte 'Change
  • But for once she had the presence of mind not to show her dismay, and she helped Mrs. Gresley to change the crewel-work antimacassars with their washed-out kittens swinging and playing leap-frog for the best tussore silk ones. Red Pottage
  • Stage after stage, and lift after lift, the air getting ever closer and hotter until even the light tussore garments were intolerable and the sweat was pouring down into those rubber-soled slippers. When The World Screamed
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