Twilling

/ˈtwɪlɪŋ/ noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this. countable, uncountable

    "It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining, the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling, which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads"

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"It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining, the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling, which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads"

Etymology

From twill + -ing.

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