rope silk
noun
A kind of silk made with a greater number of strands than ordinary silk.
Origin
Late 19th century.
- swingletree
- swingman
- swingometer
- swing (or sling) the billy
- swings and roundabouts
- swing set
- swing shift
- swing state
- swing the banjo
- swing the lead
- mendelevium
- Mendel, Gregor Johann
- Mendelian
- Mendelianism
- Mendelian ratio
- Mendelise
- Mendelism
- Mendelist
- Mendelize
- Mendelizing
- Mendelssohn, Felix
- Mendelssohnian
- mender
- Menderes
- mendicancy