| 单词 | cotton damask |
| 释义 | > as lemmascotton damask C1. attributive or adj. (without hyphen). Made of cotton: said of cloth, thread, garments, etc.; also in specific names of fabrics or materials, as cotton batting, cotton damask, cotton rep, cotton russet, cotton tick, cotton wadding, etc. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cotton clothe, xylinus pannus. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ix. 27 Twenty pieces of Caracas, which are stained linnen, or Cotten Tapestry. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiv. 384 The Cotton-cloath was to make Sails. 1752 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Paper From the XIIth century, cotton MSS. are more frequent than parchment ones. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 152 The muslins and other cotton goods of the East Indies. View more context for this quotation 1825 J. Bowring Autobiogr. Recoll. (1877) 319 Her hair tangled, a common cotton gown on. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (1876) iii. 26 Pieces of cotton cloth answer the purpose of a currency in Eastern Africa. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 636/2 Cotton thread for sewing is made by laying together two or more yarns of equal quality and twisting them. 1883 [see cotton batting n. at Compounds 3]. < as lemmas |
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