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PREFERRED TERM
Filature (building)  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the French "filature" and the Latin "fīlātūra" "fīlāre". It is the place, the factory or the establishment for reeling silk.
BROADER CONCEPT
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]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Filature (édifice)

French

Filanda (edificio)

Italian

Hilatura (edificio)

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/262
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