An old ſet-ſtitch’d chair, valanced and fringed around with party-colour’d worſted bobs, ſtood at the bed’s head, oppoſite to the ſide where my father’s head reclined.
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Worsted
//ˈwʊs.tɪd//
Synonyms for "worsted" (72 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (36)
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Translations
58 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- победен adj (defeated, overcome)
- камгар noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
- камгарена прежда noun (yarn made from wool)
Catalan
2 entries- estam noun (yarn made from wool)
- estamer noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 絨線 /绒线 noun (yarn made from wool)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 絨線 /绒线 noun (yarn made from wool)
Dutch
1 entries- kamgaren noun (yarn made from wool)
Finnish
3 entries- lyöty adj (defeated, overcome)
- kampalanka noun (yarn made from wool)
- kampalankakangas noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
French
4 entries- annihilé adj (defeated, overcome)
- anéanti adj (defeated, overcome)
- battu adj (defeated, overcome)
- battu à plate couture adj (defeated, overcome)
German
1 entries- Kammgarn noun (yarn made from wool)
Hungarian
2 entries- gyapjúfonal noun (yarn made from wool)
- gyapjúszövet noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Irish
1 entries- mustairt noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Italian
1 entries- pettinato noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Middle English
1 entries- worstede noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Norwegian
1 entries- kamgarn noun (yarn made from wool)
Persian
1 entries- فاستونی noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Polish
2 entries- kamgarn noun (yarn made from wool)
- kamgarn noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Portuguese
3 entries- estambre noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
- lã cardada noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
- lã penteada noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Romanian
3 entries- gabardină noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
- lână pieptănată noun (yarn made from wool)
- stofă-gabardin noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Russian
2 entries- побеждённый adj (defeated, overcome)
- камвольная пряжа noun (yarn made from wool)
Scots
2 entries- worset noun (yarn made from wool)
- worset noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Spanish
4 entries- aniquilado adj (defeated, overcome)
- aplastado adj (defeated, overcome)
- derrotado adj (defeated, overcome)
- deshecho adj (defeated, overcome)
Swedish
2 entries- kamgarn noun (yarn made from wool)
- redgarn noun (yarn made from wool)
Ukrainian
3 entries- перемо́жений adj (defeated, overcome)
- вовня́на гребі́нна пря́жа noun (yarn made from wool)
- камво́льна во́вна noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Welsh
2 entries- wstid noun (yarn made from wool)
- wstid noun (fine smooth wool fabric)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
[T]he kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; […]
Source: wiktionary
"Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others," said Mrs Garth. She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted, knitting her brow at it with a grand air.
Source: wiktionary
Finally he took a ball of worsted and tied strings of it across the back passage and across the opposite door.
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