PREFERRED TERM
Chevron twill
DEFINITION
- n. From the French "chevron" and the Middle English "cheffrounce" "chevorn" "cheveroune". A twill in which the diagonal lines direction is reversed over groups of picks, or over groups of ends.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
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IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Chevron (armure)
French
Spina di pesce
Italian
spinato
resca
scaglia
spigato
Espiguilla
Spanish
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