tsatleen.
/ˈtsatliː/ A very superior kind of white native-reeled raw silk, produced for the foreign market.
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1848 S. W. Williams Middle Kingdom II. xv. 123 The raw silk is an article of sale; the sorts usually known in the Canton market are tsatle, taysaam, and Canton raw silk.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tsat-lie, Tseh-li, a species of China silk obtained in Nankin and the Northern parts of the empire, superior to the Canton kinds.
1913 Times 27 June 24 The silk of China comprises, white, yellow, and wild silk. Of these raw white silk (the tsatlee of the European market) is the most important.
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