tussore
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtʌsɔɹ/, /ˈtʌsoʊɹ/
Noun
tussore (countable and uncountable, plural tussores)
- Alternative form of tussar
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 5:
- now and then the fantastic shadows of birds of flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect […]
- 2001, David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Two: The Rivals, Princeton University Press, pages 657–8:
- The next day, when Hsi-men Ch’ing returned from the yamen, he had the chests opened up and took out a bolt of block printed tussore fabric from the Imperial Silk Manufactory in the south.
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