| 单词 | cotton twist |
| 释义 | > as lemmascotton twist a. Thread or cord composed of two or more fibres or filaments of hemp, silk, wool, cotton, or the like, wound round one another; often with defining word, as silk twist, woollen twist, cotton twist, gold or silver twist. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > spun > in specific way > twisted twinec725 twine thread1530 twist1555 throw1873 twofold1884 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 200 The other [cord] is grosser lyke the wycke or twyste of hempe. 1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 93 iiiior oz. di. silke twyste. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 461 Ne to weare garments base of wollen twist, But with the finest silkes us to aray. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 110 White veluet ierkins cut, imbroidered with siluer twist. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 277 Rolling up Wooll into great Twist, & so passing it as Yarne. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 235 His coat was trimmed with tarnish'd twist. 1802 E. Forster tr. Arab. Nights III. 78 A small silk purse..tied with a piece of twist. < as lemmas |
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