PREFERRED TERM
Jusi
DEFINITION
- n. From the Spanish "jusi" and the Tagalog "husi". It refers to a delicate fibrous dress fabric, woven in the Philippine Islands. It is made with hemp warp and pineapple fibre filling or pineapple fibre warp and silk, cotton or fine abaca after filling.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
- piña cloth
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- 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
Jusi (tissu)
French
Jusi
Italian
Jusi
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/298
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