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PREFERRED TERM
Marabou  
DEFINITION
  • n. A borrowing from the French "marabout". It refers to a kind of very fine, lightweight, white kind of raw silk, made with marabou yarns, which can be dyed without first removing the natural gum and is used in crêpe weaving. Sometimes this term can be used as an attribute to define a fabric.
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]; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Marabout (tissu)

French

Marabou
Marabout

Italian

Marabú

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/335
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