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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.
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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