| 单词 | long silk |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong silk long silk n. Textiles (a) long-staple silk; †(b) (attributive) designating long-staple cotton (obsolete). ΚΠ 1650 Act for Redempt. of Captives 86 Raw long silke of all sorts. 1765 St. James's Chron. 9 Nov. A Silk Shop or Throwstry, which contains twelve double Engines to wind both short and long Silk. 1836 Papers relating to Production Cotton-wool in Rep. & Documents Proc. E.-India Company Culture & Manuf. Cotton-wool, Raw Silk, & Indigo India No. 110. 292 Fifty pounds of best long silk cotton uncleaned with the seed in it. 1867 L. Prevost Calif. Silk Grower's Man. xi. 199 Short silk brings the small price and long silk the larger price; and I prefer long silk. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce ii. ii. 200 The long silk cotton of Algeria partakes at the same time of the character of the long silk staple of Georgia. 1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xiv. 203/2 Silk is the only natural fiber that comes in filament lengths..as well as short (staple) lengths produced as waste in the process of reeling the long silk from cocoons. < as lemmas |
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